Title: Ruskin's culture wars
First published: 1998
Description: In 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 recreating the intellectual climate, she demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time.

Rebelling 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.
Subjects: History, Social conditions, Political and social views, Labor movement, Liberalism, Ruskin, john, 1819-1900, Labor movement, great britain, Great britain, social conditions
Places: Great Britain
People: John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: HD8390.R93 S76 1998