Author: John RuskinPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041261547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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Hortus Inclusus
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041261547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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Green Victorians
Author: Vicky AlbrittonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634004X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community. At the center of their social experiment was the charismatic art critic and political economist John Ruskin. Albritton and Albritton Jonsson show how Ruskin’s followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from hand spinning and woodworking to gardening, archaeology, and pedagogy. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for there was a dark side to Ruskin’s community as well—racist thinking, paternalism, and technophobia. Richly illustrated, Green Victorians breaks new ground, connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin’s utopian community with the problems of ethical consumption then and now.
Works
Author: John RuskinFortune's Favourite
Author: Katharine TynanReference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Works of John Ruskin
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Songs of the Celtic Past
Author: Norreys Jephson O'ConorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Author: Thomas James Wise
Author: Marshall Mather