William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on Which the World Should Travel eBook

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Subjects covered include Ruskin’s connection with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, Morris and the division of labour, Ruskin’s engagement with education and the environment, Ruskin and the art and architecture of Red House, the parallels between Ruskin’s support for Laxey Mill and Morris’s Merton Abbey Works, the illustrated manuscript and the contrasts between Ruskin’s Tory paternalism and Morris’s revolutionary socialism. The book includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this volume.

Ruskin’s beliefs had a profound and lasting impact on Morris who wrote, upon first reading Ruskin whilst at Oxford University, that his views offered a “new road on which the world should travel” – a road that led Morris to social and political change.

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9781905816286

William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on Which the World Should Travel 1st Edition is written by John Blewitt and published by University of Exeter Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for William Morris and John Ruskin are 9781905816293, 1905816294 and the print ISBNs are 9781905816279, 1905816278. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781905816286.