Readers of Victorian non-fictional prose were encouraged to believe that John Ruskin had died in 1860. Not literally, but intellectually and imaginatively. This study of his... Læs mere
These essays refute the notion that the 18th century was fashioned in a distinctly negative way by the Whigs. The contributors search out the subtler conceptions of interrelation, the hidden richness and complexity of the Victorians' settlement with the previous century.