Late Ruskin: New Contexts / Francis O'Gorman.

"This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized readings of important texts and themes from that late period, 1860-1889, discussing in detail works including Unto this Last (1860), the Lect...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: O'Gorman, Francis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Routledge Revivals.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 1 'An Entirely Honest Merchant': the Domestic Context of Unto This Last (1860) / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 2 'What I Might Myself Have Been': Sesame and Lilies (1865) and the Occasion of Autobiography / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 3 'The Beginning of Art is in Getting our Country Clean': the Inaugural Lectures on Art (1870) / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 4 'Do Good Work Whether You Whether You Live or Die': Fors Clavigera, Usefulness, and the Crisis of the Commune / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 5 'Decent, Trim, as Human Dwellings Should Be': Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination of the 1870s / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 6 'Just the Thing for Girls -Sketching, Fine Art and So On': Ruskin and Manliness (1870-1920) / Francis O'Gorman
  • chapter 7 'Oh Fast Whirling Reader': The Bible of Amiens (1880-85), Tolerance and Autobiography / Francis O'Gorman.