Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

232 Pages·2013·2.714 MB·English

by  Keith Hanley, Brian Maidment

Persistent ruskin
examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of ruskin’s engagement
with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized
around three related themes. The first is the dissemination of Ruskin’s intellectual
legacy to working men and women, especially through education, collections and
museums, and popular print culture; the second is the range of his following in
literary culture, the theatre and design; and the third is the extent to which ruskin’s
work has informed a global network of aesthetic, social and political movements
which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge his authority and inspiration. An
introduction aims to place his own approach to the vexed questions of access and
cultural values.
the nineteenth Century series
General editors’ Preface
The aim of the series is to reflect, develop and extend the great burgeoning of interest
in the nineteenth century that has been an inevitable feature of recent years, as that
former epoch has come more sharply into focus as a locus for our understanding
not only of the past but of the contours of our modernity. it centres primarily
upon major authors and subjects within romantic and Victorian literature. it also
includes studies of other British writers and issues, where these are matters of
current debate: for example, biography and autobiography, journalism, periodical
literature, travel writing, book production, gender, non-canonical writing. We are
dedicated principally to publishing original monographs and symposia; our policy
is to embrace a broad scope in chronology, approach and range of concern, and
both to recognize and cut innovatively across such parameters as those suggested
by the designations ‘romantic’ and ‘Victorian’. We welcome new ideas and
theories, while valuing traditional scholarship. it is hoped that the world which
predates yet so forcibly predicts and engages our own will emerge in parts, in
the wider sweep, and in the lively streams of disputation and change that are so
manifest an aspect of its intellectual, artistic and social landscape.
Vincent newey
Joanne shattock
University of Leicester
Persistent ruskin
Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect
keith hAnley
Lancaster University, UK
and
BriAn MAidMent
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
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Persistent Ruskin: studies in influence, assimilation and effect. – (The nineteenth century
series)
1. Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 – Influence. 2. Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 – Criticism and
interpretation. 3. Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 – Political and social views. 4. Ruskin, John,
1819–1900 – Knowledge and learning. 5. Working class – Social conditions. 6. Influence
(Literary, artistic, etc.)
i. series ii. hanley, keith. iii. Maidment, Brian.
828.8’09-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Persistent Ruskin: studies in influence, assimilation, and effect / edited by Keith Hanley and
Brian Maidment.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0076-9 (hardcover: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4094-0077-6 (ebook)
1. Ruskin, John, 1819–1900—Influence. 2. Ruskin, John, 1819–1900—History and
criticism. 3. Ruskin, John, 1819–1900—Political and social views. 4. Ruskin, John, 1819–
1900—Knowledge and learning. 5. Working class—Social conditions. 6. Influence (Literary,
artistic, etc.) i. hanley, keith. ii. Maidment, Brian.
PR5264.P47 2012
828’.809—dc23
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Note on Text xv
Introduction: Ruskin’s ‘Common Treasuries’ 1
Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment
Part 1 Spreading the Word – Readerships, Audiences, Listeners
1 John Ruskin and the Working Classes in Mid-Victorian Britain 15
Lawrence Goldman
2 John Ruskin and the Idea of a Museum 33
Marcus Waithe
3 Of Ruskin, Women and Power 53
Rachel Dickinson
4 Influence, Presence, Appropriation – Ruskinian Periodicals
1890–1910 67
Brian Maidment
Part 2 Followers and Their Sites of Influence
5 Did Ruskin Support the Pre-Raphaelites? 81
Francis O’Gorman
6 Christian Socialism on the Stage: Henry Arthur Jones’s Wealth (1889)
and the Dramatisation of Ruskinian Political Economy 93
Peter Yeandle
7 Enduring Ruskin? Bloomsbury’s Anxieties of Influence 105
Andrew Leng
8 Ruskin’s Theory of the Ideal Dress and Textile Analogy in
Medieval Architecture 117
Anuradha Chatterjee
Part 3 World-wide Ruskin
9 Deep Seers: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore and the Teaching
of Art at Harvard 137
Melissa Renn
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10 Masters and Men: Ruskin and the Sydney Building World of the
1890s 157
Mark Stiles
11 Ruskin, Morris and the Terraforming of Mars 171
Tony Pinkney
12 The Ruskin Diaspora 179
Keith Hanley
Bibliography 197
Index 207
List of Figures
2.1 Interior of St George’s Museum, Walkley. Unknown
photographer, c. 1887. Collection of the Guild of St George,
Museums Sheffield. 35
2.2 Interior of the extension, St George’s Museum, Walkley.
Unknown photographer, c. 1886. Collection of the Guild of
St George, Museums Sheffield. 37
2.3 Interior of the extension, St George’s Museum, Walkley.
Unknown photographer, c. 1886. Collection of the Guild of
St George, Museums Sheffield. 38
2.4 Interior of the extension, St George’s Museum, Walkley.
Unknown photographer, c. 1886. Collection of the Guild of
St George, Museums Sheffield. 39
8.1 John Ruskin, Drawing of the tomb of Ilaria del Caretto, Lucca
Cathedral, 1874. Ruskin Library, Lancaster University. 121
8.2 Allan Ramsay, Margaret Lindsay, 1758–9. Scottish National
Gallery. 124
8.3 West front, St Mark’s Basilica, Venice. Photograph by the
author. 130
8.4 Veining and colouring of marble cladding, west wall on southern
side of St Mark’s Basilica, Venice. Photograph by the author. 131
8.5 Façade, Piazetta side, Ducal Palace, Venice. Photograph by the
author. 132
8.6 Looking upwards, Ducal Palace, Venice. Photograph by the
author. 133
9.1 Charles Herbert Moore, Landscape, c. 1872. Harvard Art
Museums/Fogg Museum. 144
9.2 Charles Herbert Moore, St John and St Mark from the
‘Madonna Enthroned’ after Fra Angelico, 1876. Harvard Art
Museums/Fogg Museum. 148
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9.3 Martin Mower, Oak Leaf, 1895. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg
Museum. 153
9.4 Unknown photographer, The Ruskin Drawing School, Oxford,
c. 1904. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 154
9.5 August Boecker, New Fogg Print Study Room, 1927. Harvard
Fine Arts Library Special Collections, Harvard College
Library. 155
Notes on Contributors
Anuradha Chatterjee is a Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture and
Design at the University of Tasmania. She was founding editor and now co-edits
The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (Rivendale Press). Recent publications
include ‘“Tectonic into Textile”: John Ruskin and His Obsession with the
Architectural Surface’ in Textile 7.1 (2009), and ‘John Ruskin and the Female
Body as the Theoretical Preconditions for Architecture’ in Fabrications: The
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand
19.1 (2009).
Rachel Dickinson is a Senior Lecturer in and Programme Leader for English
Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Cheshire Faculty. She was
previously the AHRC Research Associate on the ‘John Ruskin, Cultural Travel,
and Popular Access’ project led by Keith Hanley at Lancaster University. She
has published a scholarly edition of John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan
Severn—Sense and ‘Nonsense Letters’ (Legenda 2009). Her current research is on
Ruskin and textiles.
Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in History at St Peter’s College, Oxford
and the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. An essay of his
on Ruskin and the late-Victorian working class was published in ed. Dinah Birch,
Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern (Oxford UP 1999).
Keith Hanley is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, where
he directed the Ruskin Centre for eight years. He has written widely on British
Romanticism and Victorian literature, including John Ruskin’s Northern Tours
1837–1838: Travelling North (Mellen 2007), and, with John Walton, Constructing
Cultural Tourism: John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze (Channel View 2010). He is
co-editor, with David Thomas, of the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth-Century
Contexts (Routledge) and has co-edited many essay collections, including, with
Rachel Dickinson, Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence: Self-Representation through
Art, Place and Society (Cambridge Scholars Press 2006) and, with Emma Sdegno,
Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travel (Le Bricole 2011).
Andrew Leng taught the interdisciplinary course in Writing and Critical Thinking
in the National University of Singapore’s University Scholar Programme before
becoming Head of English at Westfield School in Newcastle. Other Ruskin-related
publications are an article, ‘Ruskin’s Re-writing of Darwin: Modern Painters V
and “The Origin of Wood”’ (Prose Studies 30.1 [April 2008]) and his chapter,