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The Practical Ruskin: Economics and Audience in the Late Work

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In the first full-length study centered on Ruskin's late work, Linda Austin explores the ways an implicit economic theory operates in writings on the fine arts and literature. Examining cultural "texts" such as Ruskin's museum, publishing experiments, and educational proposals in addition to various essays and university lectures, she defines an "economic discourse" in Ruskin's writing--a set of beliefs that he internalized from traditional and current economic theory. Arguing that this discourse implicates Ruskin in the very commercial structures he spent the best part of his career attacking, Austin shows how Ruskin was himself caught up in a commodity economy and how his theory of art was significantly modified by his conception of exchange. According to Austin, two tenets shaped Ruskin's beliefs: the labor theory of value articulated by Ricardo early in the century and the theories of exchange value and marginal utility advanced by Marx, Jevons, and others in the second half of the century. Ruskin accepted these ideas, she contends, largely because of his awareness of an expanding middle- and working-class audience for both his own work and popular art in general. From descriptions of paintings, coins, landscapes, and sundry comments, Austin assembles an economic model that explains much of what Ruskin says in his university lectures and letters to laborers. With his conceptions of money and labor and his materialistic idea of meaning, Austin concludes, Ruskin tried to reach a mass audience. Ironically, the very presence of this mass audience, as well as Ruskin's implicit belief in exchange value, threatened his authority as a critic and caused him to recoil from the very readers he was trying to reach.

About the Author :
Linda M. Austin is associate professor of English at Oklahoma State University.

Review :
"Respects Ruskin's difficult texts and apparently perverse projects, and takes seriously the task of finding meaning in them...A book that those interested in the production and reception of art and literature in the 19th century as well as Ruskin scholars will want to read."--'Victorian Literature'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801841620
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 460 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801841623
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 1991
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Economics and Audience in the Late Work
  • Width: 152 mm


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