William Morris and John Ruskin : a new road on which the world should travel / edited by John Blewitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blewitt, John, 1957- editor.

William Morris Society, original issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morris, William, 1834-1896.

Morris, William.

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Ruskin, John.

Physical Description:

ix, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2019.

Summary:

A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900).0Subjects covered include Ruskin's connection with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, Morris and the division of labour, Ruskin's engagement with education and the environment, Ruskin and the art and architecture of Red House, the parallels between Ruskin's support for Laxey Mill and Morris's Merton Abbey Works, the illustrated manuscript and the contrasts between Ruskin's Tory paternalism and Morris's revolutionary socialism. The book includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this volume.0Ruskin's beliefs had a profound and lasting impact on Morris who wrote, upon first reading Ruskin whilst at Oxford University, that his views offered a "new road on which the world should travel" - a road that led Morris to social and political change.

Contents:

1. Ruskin and Morris / Peter Faulkner

2. John Ruskin: Patron or Patriarch? / Robert Brownell

3. 'This link between the Earth and Man': Ruskin, Nature and Education / Sara Atwood

4. Red House and Ruskin / Jacques Migeon

5. Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism / Peter Faulkner

6. Ruskin and Fairfax Murray / David Elliott

7. John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript / Evelyn J. Phimister

8. Medievalism in Morris's Aesthetic Theory / Michael Naslas

9. 'Bawling the right road': Morris and Ruskinian Social Criticism / Chris Brooks

10. From Art to Politics: William Morris and John Ruskin / Lawrence Goldman

11. Laxey Mill: Ruskin's Parallel to Merton Abbey / David Faldet

12. William Morris and the Division of Labour: The Idea of Work in News from Nowhere / Christopher Shaw

13. Ruskin's Tory Paternalism / John Blewitt.

Notes:

Chapters previously published in the Journal of William Morris Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781905816347

9781905816279

1905816278

1905816340

OCLC:

1089230985

Publisher Number:

99983677255