{"product_id":"ruskins-culture-wars-judith-stoddart-9780813918068","title":"Ruskin's Culture Wars: Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"When I consider the quantity of wise talking which has passed in at one long ear of the world, and out at the other, without making the smallest impression upon its mind, I am tempted for the rest of my life to try and do what seems to me rational, silently; and to speak no more.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Ruskin in Fors Clavigera (27:353)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuskin did, however, speak voluminously throughout the late nineteenth century in opposition to the abstract theoretical musings of the day. His Fors Clavigera--a collection of monthly letters published over thirteen years--offered his readers a model of critical discourse as a living, material process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ruskin's Culture Wars, Judith Stoddart provides the first sustained modern critical reading of Fors Clavigera, placing this classic work in the context of its Victorian contemporaries: art journals, liberal and working-class periodicals, and popular criticism. In re-creating the intellectual climate, she demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebelling against the tendency to treat Ruskin's letters as the prose lyric of a damaged psyche, Stoddart shows how the cumulative text of Fors Clavigera not only records but revises and redirects the preoccupations of his period. He was an integral part of Victorian discussions of literary tradition and of the roles of democracy and nationality in late-nineteenth-century Europe. Ruskin's Culture Wars offers a valuable case study in Victorian public discourse that contributes to ongoing debates in our own century about the relations between language and history, text and context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Stoddart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813918065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813918068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.38w x 0.90d","brand":"Judith Stoddart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46571041915135,"sku":"9780813918068","price":50.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_02e0c359-5d3a-4a5c-abda-b3579a217216.jpg?v=1738807074","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ruskins-culture-wars-judith-stoddart-9780813918068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}