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John Ruskin, 1819-1900

English Victorian sage, art historian, and romantic critic.

Influenced by Thomas Carlyle John Ruskin got interested in political economy and socialism in 1860.  Ruskin denounced the social and moral changes to British society brought about by the Industrial Revolution of the 19th C., and harked back romantically to the idyll of the pre-industrial age. Ruskin was a visceral and outspoken opponent of capitalism, liberalism and what he perceived as the apologetics of Classical economics.  His work helped inspire much trade union activism in the late 19th Century.

 

  


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Major Works of John Ruskin

  • The King of the Golden River, 1841 [gut]
  • Modern Painters, 1843-60
  • The Opening of the Crystal Palace, 1854 [bk]
  • "Unto this Last, four essays on the first principles of political economy", 1860, Cornhill Magazine (v.2)
    • Pt. 1  - "The Roots of Honour", (Aug), p.155
    • Pt. 2 - "The Veins of Wealth" (Sep) p.278
    • Pt. 3 - "Qui Judicatus Terram", (Oct) p.407
    • Pt. 4 - "Ad Valorem" (Nov) p.543
    • [1862 repr. Unto this Last, four essays on the first principles of political economy [bk]] [txt: bris, gut] [audio]
  • Essays on Political Economy, being a sequel to papers that appeared in Cornhill Magazine", 1862-63, Fraser's Magazine
    • Pt. 1 (v.65, Jun, 1862), p.784
    • Pt. 2 (v.66, Sep), p.265
    • Pt 3 (v.66, Dec), p.742
    • Pt. 4 (v.67, Apr, 1863), p.441
    • [1872 repr. Munera Pulveris: Six essays on political economy bk]
  • Sesame and Lillies, 1865 [bk] [1873 ed, 94 ed., gut]
  • The Crown of Wild Olive: three lectures on work, traffic and war, 1866 [bk]
  • The Ethics of the Dust: lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallization, 1866 [bk]
  • Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne: twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work, 1867 [bk] [gut]
  • Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, 1871-77 & 1884. eight volumes  [v.1 (1871), v.2 (1872), v.3 (1873). v.4 (1874), v.5 (1875), v.6 (1876), v.7 (1877), v.8 (1884)] [idx]
  • The Eagle's Nest, 1872  [bk]
  • "The Range of Intellectual Conception Proportioned to the Rank in Animated Life", 1871, Contemporary Review, p.424
  • "The Nature and Authority of Miracle", 1873, Contemporary Review, p.627
  • "Home, and its Economies", 1873, Contemporary Review, p.927
  • Political Economy of Art, 1884 [bk]

 


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Resources on John Ruskin

  • "Political Economy in the Clouds", 1860, Fraser's Magazine (Nov), p.651
  • "Mr. Ruskin's Recent Writings" by Leslie Stephen, 1874, Fraser's Magazine, p.688 [moa]
  • John Ruskin: A bibliographical biography, by W.E.A. Axon, 1879 [bk]
  • John Ruskin: His life and work by William Smart, 1880 (pub. 1883) [bk]
  • John Ruskin: Aspects of his thought and teaching by Edmund Baillie, 1882 [bk]
  • John Ruskin, Economist, by Sir Patrick Geddes, 1884 [bk]
  • Introduction to the writings of John Ruskin by Vida Scudder, 1890 [bk]
  • Life of John Ruskin by E.T. Cook, 1911, v.1, v.2
  • "Ruskin, John" in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894-1899, Dictionary of Political Economy [1918 ed.]
  • "Ruskin, John" in 1911, Britannica.
  • "What is Real Wealth? A Ruskinian framework for economic justice" by Jeffrey L. Spear and Lynn Parramore, INET (Mar 2015) [INET, pdf]
  • Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition of Social Criticism, by Jeffrey L. Spear, 1984.[degruyter]
  • John Ruskin’s Political Economy by Willie Henderson, 2000 [review in HOPE].
  • Ruskin and Social Reform: Ethics and economics in the Victorian age, by Gill Cockram, 2007
  • "Review of Hilton's Ruskin", NY Rev of Books online
  • Ruskin entry at Britannica
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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