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Ruskin's Culture Wars: Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Judith Stoddart
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Description for Ruskin's Culture Wars: Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Paperback. Provides the first sustained modern critical reading of Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, placing this classic work in the context of its Victorian contemporaries: art journals, liberal and working-class periodicals, and popular criticism. In re-creating the intellectual climate, she demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
When I consider the quantity of wise talking which has passed in at one long ear of the world, and out at the other, without making the smallest impression upon its mind, I am tempted for the rest of my life to try and do what seems to me rational, silently; and to speak no more."" --Ruskin in Fors Clavigera (27:353)
Ruskin did, however, speak voluminously throughout the late nineteenth century in opposition to the abstract theoretical musings of the day. His Fors Clavigera--a collection of monthly letters published over thirteen years--offered his readers a model of critical discourse ... Read more
When I consider the quantity of wise talking which has passed in at one long ear of the world, and out at the other, without making the smallest impression upon its mind, I am tempted for the rest of my life to try and do what seems to me rational, silently; and to speak no more."" --Ruskin in Fors Clavigera (27:353)
Ruskin did, however, speak voluminously throughout the late nineteenth century in opposition to the abstract theoretical musings of the day. His Fors Clavigera--a collection of monthly letters published over thirteen years--offered his readers a model of critical discourse ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938844
SKU
V9780813938844
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About Judith Stoddart
Judith Stoddart is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA.
Reviews for Ruskin's Culture Wars: Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Working centrifugally from Fors Clavigera, Stoddart examines Romantic authority and radical individualism, nationalism, historicism, and canon formation. Whereas earlier critics have avoided or dismissed Fors as too infelicitous, Stoddart sets these very idiosyncrasies in larger intellectual and political contexts. She is perceptive in showing how prevailing assumptions, not only about the self but about critical authority, continue to affect general ... Read more