Ruskin and Modernism

Giovanni Cianci, Peter Nicholls

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9780333915608
• eBook ISBN: 9781403913609
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Unstable Foundations: Ruskin and the Costs of Modernity
• 2 Gothic as Leaf, Gothic as Crystal: John Ruskin and Wilhelm Worringer
• 3 Ruskin, Myth and Modernism
• 4 Degrees of Darkness: Ruskin, Pater and Modernism
• 5 ‘Reactionary Desire’: Ruskin and the Work of Fiction
• 6 The Early James and Ruskin: Intergenerational Frictions
• 7 ‘Things Passed Over’: Ruskin, Modernism and Autobiography
• 8 Ruskin and the Fascination of Words
• 9 Tradition, Architecture and Rappel à l’Ordre: Ruskin and Eliot (1917–21)
• 10 Eliot and Ruskin: Second Thoughts
• 11 Ruskin’s Grotesque and the Modernism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis
• 12 Laying the Ghost: D. H. Lawrence’s Fight with Ruskin
• 13 Architecture as Commentary: Ruskin’s Pre-modern Architectural Thought and its Influence on Modern Architecture
• Index