Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jonathan Loesberg
• Julian Wolfreys
• Wolfreys, Julian

Titel

John Ruskin (1819–1900) and Walter Pater (1839–1894): Aesthetics and the State

Ist Teil von

• Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory, 2006, p.8

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although John Ruskin and Walter Pater made their contemporaneous reputations as critics and theorists of art and are indeed virtually the only two British aesthetic (as opposed to literary) theorists of note in the nineteenth century, twentieth-century critics have read them primarily in the tradition of nineteenth-century prose, along with Coleridge, Carlyle and Arnold. From this perspective, Ruskin has had considerable importance in extending the Coleridgean idea of organic form into an organic critique of British society that influenced William Morris’s socialism and through him the British labour party (Rosenberg 1961, 131). Along with Coleridge and Arnold, Ruskin continued to