GIOVANNI CIANCI is Professor of English Literature at University of Milan. His publications include Volcanic Heaven: Essays on W. Lewis's Painting and Writing (1996). - PETER NICHOLLS is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing and Modernisms: A Literary Guide and of numerous essays on twentieth-century literature and theory.

• Introduction; G.Cianci & P.Nicholls Unstable Foundations: Ruskin and the Costs of Modernity; R.L.Stein Gothic as Leaf, Gothic as Crystal: John Ruskin and Wilhelm Worringer; A.Pinotti Ruskin, Myth, and Modernity; D.Birch Degrees of Darkness: Ruskin, Pater and Modernism; L.Brake Reactionary Desire: Ruskin and the Work of Fiction; I.Duncan The Early James and Ruskin: Intergenerational Frictions; L.Villa Things Passed Over: Ruskin, Modernism, and Autobiography; M.Saunders Ruskin and the Fascination of Words; T.Cerutti Tradition, Architecture and Rappel a l'Ordre : Ruskin and Eliot (1917-1921); G.Cianci Eliot and Ruskin: Second Thoughts; R.Bush Ruskin's Grotesque and the Modernism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis; P.Nicholls Laying the Ghost: D.H. Lawrence's Fight with Ruskin; S.Michelucci Architecture as Commentary: Ruskin's Pre-Modern Architectural Thought and Its Influence on Modern Architecture; G.Leoni Index