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John Ruskin (1819±1900) and Walter Pater (1839±1894): Aesthetics and the State Although John Ruskin and Walter Pater made their contemporaneous reputations as critics and theorists of art and are indeed virtually the only two British aesthetic (as opposed to literary) theorists of note in the nineteenth century, twentieth-century critics have read them primarily in the tradition of nineteenth-century prose, along with Coleridge, Carlyle and Arnold. From this perspective, Ruskin has had considerable importance in extending the Coleridgean idea of organic form into an organic critique of British society that influenced William Morris's socialism and through him the British labour party (Rosenberg 1961, 131). Along with Coleridge and Arnold, Ruskin continued to influence the British Cambridge critics' organicist social views (he had less influence on American New Critics and Ruskin specialists in the United States, following Rosenberg, discuss his organicism generally in connection with his social and economic theories). Both Ruskin's political heirs and his academic critics have then construed Pater's writings as an aesthetic narrowing of Ruskin, a concern for aesthetics that deliber

Author

Jonathan Loesberg

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN