John Ruskin
No Wealth But Life
$51.22
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2013
Summary
Ruskin, whose life spanned almost a century from 1819 to 1900, was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual figures of his age. He was fundamentally a post-Romantic visionary; this fact underlies his activities as art critic and writer on architecture and also his passionate advocacy of an alternative social model for England.
“There is no Wealth but Life,” wrote Ruskin in his political essays of the 1860s. This new biography shows him as a whole, demonstrating that his s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845952150 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845952154 |
| Author: | John Batchelor |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2013 |
| Weight: | 433g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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John Batchelor
John Batchelor is Professor of English Literature at the University of Newcastle. He was previously a Fellow of New College Oxford. His previous biographies include books about Ruskin, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, and Conrad. He is the editor of the literary magazine Modern Language Review (English and American Literature).
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