John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

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  • John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education Book Detail

  • Author : Valerie Purton
  • Release Date : 2018-06-14
  • Publisher : Anthem Press
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 206
  • ISBN 13 : 1783088060
  • File Size : 32,32 MB

John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education by Valerie Purton PDF Summary

Book Description: An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin’s influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere education today. John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education brings together top international Ruskin scholars, exploring Ruskin’s many-faceted writings, pointing to some of the key educational issues raised by his work, and concluding with a powerful rereading of his ecological writing and apocalyptic vision of the earth’s future. In anticipation of the bicentennial of Ruskin’s birth in 2019, this volume makes a fresh and significant contribution to Victorian studies in the twenty-first century. It is dedicated to Dinah Birch, a much-loved Victorian specialist and authority on John Ruskin.

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