William Morris and John Ruskin (EPUB) von John Blewitt

Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory paternalism and Morris’s (1834-1896) socialism.

The William Morris Society
Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction - John Blewitt

2 Ruskin and Morris - Peter Faulkner

3 John Ruskin: patron or patriarch? - Robert Brownell

4 ‘“This link between the Earth and Man”: Ruskin, Morris, and Education’ -
Sara Atwood

5 Red House and Ruskin - Jacques Migeon

6 Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism - Peter Faulkner

7 Ruskin and Fairfax Murray - David Elliot

8 John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript - Evelyn J. Phimister

9 Medievalism in Morris’s Aesthetic Theory - Michael Naslas

10 ‘Bawling the right road’: Morris and Ruskinian social criticism - Chris Brooks

11 From Art to Politics: John Ruskin and William Morris - Lawrence Goldman

12 Laxley Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey - David Faldet

13 William Morris and the Division of Labour: the idea of work in News from Nowhere - Christopher Shaw

14 John Ruskin’s Tory Paternalism - John Blewitt

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