Persistent Ruskin: studies in influence, assimilation and effect

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Contents: Introduction, Ruskins 'common treasuries', Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment Part 1 Spreading the Word - Readerships, Audiences, Listeners: John Ruskin and the working-classes in mid-Victorian Britain, Lawrence Goldman John Ruskin and the idea of a museum, Marcus Waithe Of Ruskin, women and power, Rachel Dickinson Influence, presence, appropriation - Ruskinian periodicals, Brian Maidment. Part 2 Followers and Their Sites of Influence: Did Ruskin support the Pre-Raphaelites? Francis O'Gorman Christian Socialism on the stage: Henry Arthur Jones's Wealth and the dramatization of Ruskinian political economy, Peter Yeandle Enduring Ruskin? Bloomsbury's anxieties of influence, Andrew Leng Ruskin's theory of the ideal dress and textile analogy in medieval architecture, Anuradha Chatterjee. Part 3 World-Wide Ruskin: Deep seers: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore and the teaching of art at Harvard, Melissa Renn Masters and men: Ruskin and the Sydney building world of the 1890s, Mark Stiles Ruskin, Morris and the terraforming of Mars, Tony Pinkney The Ruskin diaspora, Keith Hanley Bibliography Index.