Late Ruskin: New Contexts.(Book Review)

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Ruskin and the Twentieth Century: The Modernity of Ruskinism. Ed. by . (Studi Umanistici) Vercelli: Edizioni Mercurio. 2000. 238 pp. 34,000 lire.

Late Ruskin: New Contexts. By F O'GORMAN. (The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2001. xii + 180 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling].

'People misunderstand me, and I hurt them,' Ruskin said: a plaintive recognition for one who enjoyed the occasional creative misprision. Conflation, pollution through secondary sources, willful misreading, are his nemesis, but also elements in his transmission. Drawn from a ...

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