Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism

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‘Sweet Order and Arrangement’: Victorian Women Edit John Ruskin

“…35 The reproduction of this moral aesthetic of sympathy supports Jeffrey Spear's contention that in response 'to what he sees as the corruption of the male world of public action -economic, military, scientific -Ruskin argued for a feminisation of culture, continuing an attitude going back through his father to the late eighteenth-century "Age of Sensibility" '. 36 The ceremonial structure of the literary yearbook elevated the Ruskinian celebration of sympathy and other traditionally feminine virtues to sacred status by appropriating features of devotional literature. Joss Marsh has noted how 'over the course of the nineteenth century … literature … incrementally graduated from an oppositional to an accessory relationship to Scripture', a movement which was evident in the Victorian canonisation of Wordsworth and in George Eliot's acceptance of the Wordsworthian role of moral teacher.…”

Millett's Rationalist Error

“…Sharon Weltman, for instance, has demonstrated that his views often undermine strictly separate gender categories, providing an alternative image with “more power and greater responsibility” than Coventary Patmore's “Angel of the house,” which Weltman argues stems from “a very Patriarchal view of Christianity” (1998, 109). Chris Bossche (1992); Dinah Birch (2002); Deborah Nord (1988); Elizabeth Helsinger, Robin Sheets and William Veeder (1983); Paul Sawyer (1990); and Jeffrey Spear (1984), meanwhile, have all effectively contributed to elaborating on both the complexity and the progressive aspects of Ruskin's views. As a whole, however, this body of knowledge lacks a unified conceptualization that can explain the fundamental difference of Ruskin's views from the dominant views of Victorian society.…”

“…Emma Corns, Lillian Baylis, Beatrice Webb, and Elizabeth Haldane were all involved in Hill's scheme. Indeed, Hill's efforts set the scene for the Artisans Dwellings Act (1875), which was a landmark act in the creation of public housing (Spear 1984, 176).…”

Ruskin and the English Lakes: Reading the Brantwood Years as Critique of Wordsuvorthian Regionalism

“…It has been speculated that he was descending into madness during this time, and that many of his activities, such as those at Brantwood, can be analysed in terms of the repressed 'urge to play' he experienced as a child (eg. Spear, 1984, pp. 21-22: Rosenberg.…”