Jim Spates on Ruskin

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Thanks to Professor James L. Spates, Class of 1964 Endowed Chair of Sociology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, for sharing the following material with its photographs from his blog, Why Ruskin?. Click on images to enlarge them. — George P. Landow

Ruskin’s Life

• Breaking the Ties that Bind: Ruskin, the Divorce from Effie, and the Theory of Perfidious Elites
• Ruskin's tortured relationship with his father
• Ruskin's Madness

Ruskin on Nature

• “The Office of the Mountains” — Ruskin's unparalleled ability to make nature come alive

Ruskin’s Social Criticism

• Will it last? — Ruskin's criticism of modern ephemerality
• “Taste” — thoughts on this key passage from Ruskin's “Traffic”
• Ruskin, Gandhi, & Unto This Last

Ruskin’s Reputation

• Leslie Stephen, G. K. Chesterton, and Marcel Proust on Ruskin

Related material

• A Review of Robert Brownell's Marriage of Inconvenience
• Viljoen, Helen Gill [edited by James L. Spates], “Ruskin in Milan, 1862": A Chapter from Dark Star, Helen Gill Viljoen's Unpublished Biography of John Ruskin”
• With The Ruskinians in Rouen — 21-24 June 2010

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