William Morris and John Ruskin

Description

A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900).

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.

The William Morris Society

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction - John Blewitt

2 Ruskin and Morris - Peter Faulkner

3 John Ruskin: patron or patriarch? - Robert Brownell

4 ‘“This link between the Earth and Man”: Ruskin, Morris, and Education’ -

Sara Atwood

5 Red House and Ruskin - Jacques Migeon

6 Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism - Peter Faulkner

7 Ruskin and Fairfax Murray - David Elliot

8 John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript - Evelyn J. Phimister

9 Medievalism in Morris’s Aesthetic Theory - Michael Naslas

10 ‘Bawling the right road’: Morris and Ruskinian social criticism - Chris Brooks

11 From Art to Politics: John Ruskin and William Morris - Lawrence Goldman

12 Laxley Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey - David Faldet

13 William Morris and the Division of Labour: the idea of work in News from Nowhere - Christopher Shaw

14 John Ruskin’s Tory Paternalism - John Blewitt

Index

Sujets

• Social Science
• Monographs
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Idioma inglés
• History of art
• Industrial
• Monograph
• General officer
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Cultural studies
• English
• Anthropology
• Design
• General
• History
• Social
• Musique industrielle
• Préraphaélisme
• ART
• Culture
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 30 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781905816293
• Langue: English

Extrait

William Morris and John Ruskin
William Morris and John Ruskin
A New Road On Which The World Should Travel
Edited by JOHN BLEWITT THE WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY
First published in 2019 by University of Exeter Press Reed Hall, Streatham Drive Exeter EX4 4QR UK www.exeterpress.co.uk
© 2019 selection and editorial material, John Blewitt; chapters previously published in the Journal of William Morris Studies , The William Morris Society; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Every effort has been made to contact the authors or in some cases their close relatives or spouses to ensure that they are happy for their work to be reproduced. Unfortunately, in some cases this has not been possible.
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Contents
List of Contributors
About the William Morris Society
Introduction
John Blewitt
1 Ruskin and Morris
Peter Faulkner
2 John Ruskin: Patron or Patriarch?
Robert Brownell
3 ‘This link between the Earth and Man’: Ruskin, Nature and Education
Sara Atwood
4 Red House and Ruskin
Jacques Migeon
5 Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism
Peter Faulkner
6 Ruskin and Fairfax Murray
David Elliott
7 John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript
Evelyn J. Phimister
8 Medievalism in Morris’s Aesthetic Theory
Michael Naslas
9 ‘Bawling the right road’: Morris and Ruskinian Social Criticism
Chris Brooks
10 From Art to Politics: William Morris and John Ruskin
Lawrence Goldman
11 Laxey Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey
David Faldet
12 William Morris and the Division of Labour: The Idea of Work in News from Nowhere
Christopher Shaw
13 Ruskin’s Tory Paternalism
John Blewitt
Index
Contributors
Sara Atwood ’s work has appeared in The Ruskin Review and Bulletin , Nineteenth-Century Prose , The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies and Carlyle Studies Annual . Her book, Ruskin’s Educational Ideals , was published by Ashgate in 2011. She is a contributor to the Yale University Press edition of Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (2013), Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2017) and John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education (Anthem Press, 2018). She has lectured widely on Ruskin, both in the USA and abroad, focusing particularly on education, the environment, and language. She is a Companion of the Guild of St George and its North American Development Director. Dr Atwood lives in Oregon, where she is an adjunct lecturer in English literature and writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College.
John Blewitt is an independent scholar having worked in further, higher, international and adult education for many years. He was Head of Lifelong Learning at Exeter and Aston Universities. He is the author and editor of many works on education, environmental sustainability and politics including Understanding Sustainable Development (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2018), Media, Ecology and Conservation (Green Books, 2010) and The Ecology of Learning (Earthscan, 2006). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute.
Chris Brooks was Professor of Victorian Studies at Exeter University where he helped lead the establishment of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, a museum and resource centre now administered through the University Library’s Special Collections. He was one of Britain’s leading cultural historians of the Victorian period, and was a former Chair of the prestigious Victorian Society. His many publications include the seminal The Gothic Revival (Phaidon, 1999).
Robert Brownell is a freelance writer, lecturer and artist, and is a specialist on both Morris and Ruskin. He is the author of Marriage of Inconvenience: The Truth Behind the Most Notorious Marriage of the 19th Century (Pallas Athene, 2014) and A Torch at Midnight: A Study of Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Pallas Athene, 2017).
David Elliot has retired from a career in advertising and management consultancy to devote himself to travelling, writing and lecturing. He is the grandson of Charles Fairfax Murray and author of Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite (Book Guild Publishing, 2000), Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman & William James Stillman (ACC Art Books, 2005) and co-author with Patricia O’Connor of The Late Pre-Raphaelites (Pre-Raphaelite Society, 2016).
David Faldet is Professor of English at Luther College in Iowa, USA. He shares his passion for British literature through courses in Victorian Literature and Twentieth-Century British Literature. Designer, writer and socialist William Morris has been the main focus of David’s research in Victorian literature. His fascination for regional history and ecology has resulted in numerous newspaper pieces, as well as the book Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and its People (University of Iowa Press, 2009). David’s work as a poet has appeared in a number of journals.
Peter Faulkner graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1956. He taught English at Fircroft College, Birmingham, and at the Universities of Durham and Exeter, retiring from the latter in 1998. He edited the Journal of the William Morris Society from 1987 to 1996, and served as Honorary Secretary of the Society from 1997 to 2006. He lives in Exeter.
Lawrence Goldman read History at Cambridge where he was a junior research fellow at Trinity College, and taught British and American History at St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he is now a senior research fellow. He was the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004–14 and subsequently Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He is the author of books on the history of Victorian social science, workers’ education, and the historian and social reformer, R.H. Tawney.
Jacques Migeon 1
Michael Naslas lectured in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield.
Evelyn J. Phimister is an independent researcher and writer living in Long Island City, New York; her Master’s thesis was on ‘William Morris Textiles and the Art of Illumination’. She is co-editor of Sketching at Home and Abroad: British Landscape Drawings, 1750–1850 (Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994).
Christopher Shaw was head of Social Science at Harrogate College and also taught at Huddersfield University. His main research interest was in the history of socialist thought particularly in relation to nature. He is the author of a number of articles on socialist history and with Malcolm Chase co-edited The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia (Manchester University Press, 1989).
1. Unfortunately the William Morris Society has no biographical details on record for this author.
ABOUT THE WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY
The life, work and ideas of William Morris (1834–96) are as important today as they were in his lifetime. The William Morris Society exists to make them as widely known as possible.
The breadth of Morris’s ideas and activities bring together those who are interested in him as a designer, craftsman, poet, and political activist, and who admire his robust and generous personality and his creative energy. His ideas on how we live and how we might live, on creative work, ecology and conservation, politics and the place of the arts in our lives remain as stimulating now as they were over a century ago.
Established in 1955, membership of the Society is open to all and has a worldwide fellowship. Benefits of membership include our Journal of William Morris Studies published twice a year, and our Magazine covering all aspects of Morris’s work and that of his circle. Members also receive a discount in our museum shop and on tickets for the varied talks, tours and events we run throughout the year. For more information about membership and to join us, visit www.williammorrissociety.org/membership
The Society’s office and museum are in the basement and the Coach House of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, Morris’s London home for the last eighteen years of his life. Our museum is open to the public with free admission and contains displays about Morris, including original designs, textiles and wallpapers from our collection as well as one of the Albion printing presses used by Morris’s Kelmscott Press. We hold exhibitions in the Coach House where Morris held meetings of the Socialist League. The Society maintains close ties with our US and Canadian counterparts.
Visit our website for more information about our work and activities, and to sign up for our monthly e-bulletin with our latest news and events.
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Introduction
JOHN BLEWITT
John Ruskin was very important to William Morris. His writings on art and architecture were a profound influence on Morris’s understanding of art, the dignity of labour, the significance of craft skill and his belief that there was something very wrong with the nature of modern industry and the economy. Ruskin’s social criticism and his social economics helped give form to Morris’s own social and political philosophy but in many ways they were very different people both temperamentally and politically. Morris was a libertarian socialist and Ruskin was a self-confessed ‘violent Tory of the old school’. Together, thei