Library:Microforms/RuskinandVictorianIntellectualLife

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Ruskin & Victorian Intellectual Life: Manuscripts of John Ruskin (1819-1900) from the Ruskin Library, University of Lancaster

  • Includes 29 volumes of John Ruskin's diaries covering the years 1835, 1840-41, 1844-52, 1854, 1856-78, 1880-85, 1888. Ruskin was one of the most important social and political commentators of the Victorian era, who also became one of its chief arbiters of taste. His diaries describe his travels to the Alps and Italy, his views about landscape, the sublime, religion and death, and his reactions to early Italian art from Frangelico to Titian as well as contemporary artists such as Turner and Millais.