Ruskin and Modernism

The extent of John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin's voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century.

Introduction; G.Cianci & P.Nicholls Unstable Foundations: Ruskin and the Costs of Modernity; R.L.Stein Gothic as Leaf, Gothic as Crystal: John Ruskin and Wilhelm Worringer; A.Pinotti Ruskin, Myth, and Modernity; D.Birch Degrees of Darkness: Ruskin, Pater and Modernism; L.Brake Reactionary Desire: Ruskin and the Work of Fiction; I.Duncan The Early James and Ruskin: Intergenerational Frictions; L.Villa Things Passed Over: Ruskin, Modernism, and Autobiography; M.Saunders Ruskin and the Fascination of Words; T.Cerutti Tradition, Architecture and Rappel a l'Ordre : Ruskin and Eliot (1917-1921); G.Cianci Eliot and Ruskin: Second Thoughts; R.Bush Ruskin's Grotesque and the Modernism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis; P.Nicholls Laying the Ghost: D.H. Lawrence's Fight with Ruskin; S.Michelucci Architecture as Commentary: Ruskin's Pre-Modern Architectural Thought and Its Influence on Modern Architecture; G.Leoni Index

DINAH BIRCH Fellow and Tutor In English, Trinity College, Oxford LAUREL BRAKE Senior Lecturer in Literature, Birkbeck College, London RONALD BUSH Professor of American Literature, St John's College, Oxford TONI CERUTTI Professor of English, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli IAN DUNCAN Professor of English, University of Oregon GIOVANNO LEONI Professor of History and Architecture, University of Barl, Italy STEFANIA MICHELUCCI Lecturer in English Studies, Instituto di Anglistica, Milan ANDREA PINOTTI Lecturer in Aesthetics, University of Milan MAX SAUNDERS Reader in English, King's College, London RICHARD L. STEIN Professor of English, University of Oregon LUISA VILLA Lecturer in English Literature, University of Genova, Italy