Table of Contents

Introduction
José Harris: Ruskin and Social Reform
Francis O'Gorman: Ruskin's Science of the 1870s: Science, Education, and the Nation
Lawrence Goldman: Ruskin, Oxford, and the British Labour Movement 1880-1914
Paul Tucker and Donata Levi: A Line of Absolute Correctness: Teaching Drawing at Oxford
Delia da Sousa Correa: Goddesses of Instruction and Desire: Ruskin and Music
Nicholas Shrimpton: Ruskin and the Aesthetes
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman: Myth and Gender in Ruskin's Science
Dinah Birch: Ruskin's Multiple Writing: Fors Clavigera
Index

About the Author

Dinah Birch is Tutor and Fellow in English at Trinity College, Oxford

Reviews

`an interesting collection of essays ... The various contributors to this book do some useful work in reestablishing Ruskin's reputation as one of the most pervasive influences on the cultural milieu of the Victorian age.'
Nicholas Salmon, The Jnl of the William Morris Society, Vol. XIII, No.4, Spring 00.