John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption

by David M. Craig

Book Overview

The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic life and his public practice of moral imagination. With its reading of Ruskin as an innovative contributor to a tradition of ethics concerned with character, culture, and community, this book recasts established interpretations of Ruskin's place in nineteenth-century literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925584
• ISBN13: 9780813925585
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher