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Ruskin and Social Reform: Ethics and Economics in the Victorian Age Reprint Edition
Author(s): Gill Cockram (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 23 July 2020
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 1350173878
- ISBN-13: 9781350173873
Book Description
In the first book to analyse the form and influence of Ruskin’s social theory, Gill Cockram looks at Ruskin’s significant contribution to social and intellectual thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a field often overlooked by nineteenth-century historians, Ruskin and Social Reform clarifies for the first time how Ruskin’s social theory was disseminated to a much wider readership than was evident in the mid-nineteenth century and how it was that Ruskin achieved great prominence as a social philosopher. Cockram examines the chronological development of Ruskin’s thought and establishes the extent of his influence among the nascent labour movement. It was the support of a thinker as original and as unconventional as Ruskin that helped to challenge the laissez-faire conformities of classical economics and launched the quest to find a more ethical and humane basis for social policy-making.
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About the Author
Gill Cockram completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is currently involved in further research in the history of political ideas.
