This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized readings of impor

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a

An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.

Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).

Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, the essays in The Vict