Ruskin and social reform : ethics and economics in the Victorian Age / Gill G. Cockram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockram, Gill G. (Gill Gray)

Series:

International library of historical studies ; 47.

International library of historical studies ; 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Ruskin, John.

Social ethics--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social ethics.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, [2007]

Summary:

In the first book to analyze the form and influence of Ruskin's social theory, Gill Cockram looks at Ruskin's significant contribution to social and intellectual thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a field often overlooked by 19th century historians, ' Ruskin and Social Reform'clarifies for the first time how Ruskin's social theory was disseminated to a much wider readership than was evident in the mid-nineteenth century and how it was that Ruskin achieved great prominence as a social philosopher. Cockram examines the chronological development of Ruskin's thought and establishes the extent of his influence among the nascent labour movement. It was the support of a thinker as original and as unconventional as Ruskin that helped to challenge the laissez-faire conformities of classical economics and launched the quest to find a more ethical and humane basis for social policy-making.

Contents:

2 John Ruskin: The Emergence of a Social Critic 13

3 Ethics and Economics: The Reception of Unto This Last and Munera Pulveris 40

4 Vindication: A Changing Society and a More Favourable Reception 67

5 Frederic Harrison: Positive Thinking 94

6 Hobson, Ruskin and New Liberalism 125

7 Ruskin and the Socialists 162

8 Conclusion: Moral Reconstruction in a Capitalist Society 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845113490

1845113497

OCLC:

72151032