Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 3

Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin

Ralph Pite, Aileen Christianson, Simon Grimble, Sheila A Mcintosh, John Mullan, Valerie Sanders

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040129197
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District. Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton 1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life.. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Original Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Chronology
• Copy Texts
• Abbreviations
• 1. Picturing Ruskin
• 2. Ruskin as Moralist I: Frederic Harrison, John Ruskin 29
• 3. Ruskin as Moralist II: J. A. Hobson, John Ruskin: Social Reformer
• 4. Ruskin as Teacher of Drawing
• 5. Satirising Ruskin
• 6. Ruskin and Carlyle
• 7. Ruskin and Venice
• 8. Ruskin and Oxford
• 9. Ruskin’s Controversies
• 10. In the Seventies
• 11. Ruskin and Spiritualism: Frederick W. H. Myers, Fragments of Prose and Poetry
• 12. Ruskin as Celebrity
• 13. Pathologising Ruskin
• 14. H. S. [Henry Scott] Holland, ‘Gladstone and Ruskin’, Commonwealth
• 15. Katie MacDonald Goring, ‘Friends of Living Creatures and John Ruskin’, Fortnightly Review
• 16. The Death of Ruskin
• 17. Looking Back at Ruskin
• Notes
• Permissions
• Index