Table of Contents

Foreword
David Barrie

Introduction: Ruskinisms
Michael Brooks

1 Ruskin’s Architectural Heritage: The Seven Lamps of Architecture –
Reception and Legacy
Gill Chitty

2 ‘As beautiful as anything I know in civil Gothic’, or ‘a very shabby bit of work
of mine’: Ruskin and the Oxford University Museum
Peter Howell

3 Ruskin and the English House
Geoffrey Tyack

4 Labor ipse voluptas: Scott, Street, Ruskin, and the Value of Work
Brian Hanson

5 Ruskin and the Politics of Gothic
Chris Brooks

6 ‘Intellectual Lens and Moral Retina’: A Reappraisal of Ruskin’s Architectural Vision
Malcolm Hardman

7 Ruskin and Pugin
Rosemary Hill

8 G. F. Bodley and the Response to Ruskin in Ecclesiastical Architecture in the 1850s
Michael Hall

9 ‘Theoria’ in Practice: E. W. Godwin, Ruskin and Art-Architecture
Aileen Reid

10 John Dando Sedding and Sculpture in Architecture:
The Fulfilment of a Ruskinian Ideal?
Paul Snell

11 Ruskin Today: Building the Ruskin Library, Lancaster
Richard MacCormac

Notes on contributors

Index

Reviews

the papers are generally splendid.'--Michael J Lewis "Society of Architectural Historians, 2006"