Synopses & Reviews
Although John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. This is the first study on this relationship, with contributors examining Ruskin's connection to pre-modernist writers such as Worringer and Pater and the importance of Ruskin's thought to modernists such as Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and Lawrence and to intellectual history and architectural theory.
About the Author
Giovanni Cianci is Professor of English, University of Milan. Peter Nicholls is Professor of English and American Literature, University of Sussex.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Giovanni Cianci & Peter Nicholls * Unstable Foundations: Ruskin and the Cost of Modernity--Richard L. Stein * Gothic as Leaf, Gothic as Crystal: John Ruskin and Wilhelm Worringer--Andrea Pinotti * Ruskin, Myth, and Modernism--Dinah Birch * Degrees of Darkness: Ruskin, Pater and Modernism--Laurel Brake * Reactionary Desire: Ruskin and the Work of Fiction--Ian Duncan * The Early James and Ruskin: Intergenerational Frictions--Luisa Villa * Things Passed Over: Ruskin, Modernism, and Autobiography--Max Saunders * Ruskin and the Fascination of Words--Toni Cerutti * Tradition, Architecture and
Rappel a l'Ordre Ruskin and Eliot (1917-1921)--Giovanni Cianci * Eliot and Ruskin: Second Thoughts--Ronald Bush * Ruskin's Grostesque and the Modernism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--Peter Nicholls * Laying the Ghost: D.H. Lawrence's Fight with Ruskin--Stefania Michelucci * Architecture as Commentary: Ruskin's Pre-Modern Architectural Thought and Its Influence on Modern Architecture--Giovanni Leoni Introduction--Giovanni Cianci & Peter Nicholls * Unstable Foundations: Ruskin and the Cost of Modernity--Richard L. Stein * Gothic as Leaf, Gothic as Crystal: John Ruskin and Wilhelm Worringer--Andrea Pinotti * Ruskin, Myth, and Modernism--Dinah Birch * Degrees of Darkness: Ruskin, Pater and Modernism--Laurel Brake * Reactionary Desire: Ruskin and the Work of Fiction--Ian Duncan * The Early James and Ruskin: Intergenerational Frictions--Luisa Villa * Things Passed Over: Ruskin, Modernism, and Autobiography--Max Saunders * Ruskin and the Fascination of Words--Toni Cerutti * Tradition, Architecture and
Rappel a l'Ordre Ruskin and Eliot (1917-1921)--Giovanni Cianci * Eliot and Ruskin: Second Thoughts--Ronald Bush * Ruskin's Grostesque and the Modernism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--Peter Nicholls * Laying the Ghost: D.H. Lawrence's Fight with Ruskin--Stefania Michelucci * Architecture as Commentary: Ruskin's Pre-Modern Architectural Thought and Its Influence on Modern Architecture--Giovanni Leoni