ISBN:
9780511696473
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (cxii, 682 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe 2015
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
Uniform Title:
Fors clavigera.
DDC:
305.562094109034
Keywords:
Conduct of life
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Working class
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Great Britain Social conditions 19th century
Abstract:
The influence of John Ruskin, both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the 20th century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The 39 volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. Volume 27, in two parts, contains the first three volumes of Fors Clavigera.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2009
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Originally published: London: George Allen, 1907
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 5, 2020)
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Online-Ausgabe:
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511696473
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