Ruskin After 200

Sara L. Maurer is Associate Professor Emerita of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA.Judith Stoddart is Vice Provost for University Arts and Collections and Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA.Deanna K. Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi, USA. Amy Woodson-Boulton is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

• Introduction.- SECTION ONE. RUSKIN’S PROJECTS AT 200.- 1. Ruskin’s Guild of St George, Yesterday and To-Day.- 2. The Brantwood Parables.- SECTION TWO. RUSKIN’S REACH.- 3. Ruskin, Wordsworth, Stevens, and the Pathetic Fallacy.- 4. “Him that shoots at beauty”: Thoreau on the Wings of Ruskin.- 5. Ruskin for Whitechapel.- SECTION THREE. RUSKIN AND THE ART OF TECHNOLOGY.- 6. Art and Industry: John Ruskin, George Lance, and Still-Life Painting.- 7. “Science Mixed with Feeling”: Ruskin and the Observation and Representation of the Natural World.- 8. Ruskin’s Media: Technologies of the Gothic.- 9. Ruskin’s Rubbish.- SECTION FOUR. RUSKIN, PROPHET OF THE ANTHROPOCENE.- 10. Thinking Ecologically with Ruskin and Dickens.- 11. Ruskin, Slavery, and Zombie History.- 12. Are Carbon Taxes Impious?.- 13. Ruskin in the Age of COVID-19.