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Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin's work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin's continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin's persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin's intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin's followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin's work and teaching. Working-class education, the Ruskinian periodical, plays, and science fiction are all considered along with the Bloomsbury Group's engagement with Ruskin's thought and writing. Essays on Ruskin abroad-in America, Australia, and India round out the collection Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Text -- Introduction: Ruskin's 'Common Treasuries' -- Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment -- Part 1 Spreading the Word - Readerships, Audiences, Listeners -- 1 John Ruskin and the Working Classes in Mid-Victorian Britain -- Lawrence Goldman -- 2 John Ruskin and the Idea of a Museum -- Marcus Waithe -- 3 Of Ruskin, Women and Power -- Rachel Dickinson -- 4 Influence, Presence, Appropriation - Ruskinian Periodicals 1890-1910 -- Brian Maidment -- Part 2 Followers and Their Sites of Influence -- 5 Did Ruskin Support the Pre-Raphaelites? -- Francis O'Gorman -- 6 Christian Socialism on the Stage: Henry Arthur Jones's Wealth (1889) and the Dramatisation of Ruskinian Political Economy -- Peter Yeandle -- 7 Enduring Ruskin? Bloomsbury's Anxieties of Influence -- Andrew Leng -- 8 Ruskin's Theory of the Ideal Dress and Textile Analogy in Medieval Architecture -- Anuradha Chatterjee -- Part 3 World-wide Ruskin -- 9 Deep Seers: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore and the Teaching of Art at Harvard -- Melissa Renn -- 10 Masters and Men: Ruskin and the Sydney Building World of the 1890s -- Mark Stiles -- 11 Ruskin, Morris and the Terraforming of Mars -- Tony Pinkney -- 12 The Ruskin Diaspora -- Keith Hanley -- Bibliography -- Index
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