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John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

Beschreibung

John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in 'John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education' examine Ruskin's influence on educating girls, libraries, creativity, grammar schools, social mobility, the environment and the future of the planet.

Autor

Valerie Purton is emerita professor of Victorian literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and has published widely on the Victorians. She is the author of Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition (2012); editor of the Everyman Dombey and Son (1997) and Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers (2013); and co-author of the Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson (2010) and Poems by Two Brothers: The Poetry of Tennyson's Father and Uncle (1993). Purton has been editor of the Tennyson Research Bulletin since 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781783088058
• ISBN-10: 1783088052
• Artikelnr.: 52914800