{"product_id":"william-morris-and-john-ruskin-a-new-road-on-which-the-world-should-travel-9781905816347","title":"William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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).\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof William Morris Studies\u003c\/em\u003e between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this volume.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book to be considered carefully, then, for its multiple ways of approaching these two men and their works.There are no attempts to force a synergy between the two where none exists; differences are fully acknowledged and fruitfully explored, while similarities are teased out, considered from all angles and used to shed a light on these ‘eminent Victorians’.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Serena Trowbridge * Pre-Raphaelite Society Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe William Morris Society\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction - John Blewitt\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 Ruskin and Morris - Peter Faulkner\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 John Ruskin: patron or patriarch? - Robert Brownell\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 ‘“This link between the Earth and Man”: Ruskin, Morris, and Education’ -\u003cbr\u003e  Sara Atwood\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5 Red House and Ruskin - Jacques Migeon\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism - Peter Faulkner\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7 Ruskin and Fairfax Murray - David Elliot\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8 John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript - Evelyn J. Phimister\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9 Medievalism in Morris’s Aesthetic Theory - Michael Naslas\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10 ‘Bawling the right road’: Morris and Ruskinian social criticism - Chris Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11 From Art to Politics: John Ruskin and William Morris - Lawrence Goldman\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12 Laxley Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey - David Faldet\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13 William Morris and the Division of Labour: the idea of work in News from Nowhere - Christopher Shaw\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14 John Ruskin’s Tory Paternalism - John Blewitt\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360238600535,"sku":"9781905816347","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781905816347.jpg?v=1754127083","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/william-morris-and-john-ruskin-a-new-road-on-which-the-world-should-travel-9781905816347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}