Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain / John Ruskin ; edited by Dinah Birch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Contributor:

Birch, Dinah.

Series:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Selections. 1994 Works.

Whitehouse edition of John Ruskin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1900.

Conduct of life.

Aesthetics.

Social problems.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xlix, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2000]

Summary:

"Fors Clavigera" (1871--1884), Ruskin's serial "Letters to the Workmen of Great Britain," is his most controversial and personal text. This selected edition of "Fors Clavigera" is the first since the Library edition completed its 3-volume text in 1907. It provides an extensive selection of the most challenging writing in "Fors, " including several complete letters and sequences. The densely allusive text is elucidated with full annotation, and features a critical introduction, bibliographical notes, and suggestions for further reading. Ruskin's original illustrations, essential for the understanding of his argument, are reproduced. This edition will at last make "Fors Clavigera" -- disturbing and endlessly fascinating -- available to modern readers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-382) and index.

ISBN:

1853311251

OCLC:

45170148