Fors Clavigera - Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain

Fors Clavigera (1871--1884), Ruskin's serial "Letters to the Workmen of Great Britain," is his most controversial and personal text. This selected edition of Fors Clavigera is the first since the Library edition completed its 3-volume text in 1907. It provides an extensive selection of the most challenging writing in Fors, including several complete letters and sequences. The densely allusive text is elucidated with full annotation, and features a critical introduction, bibliographical notes, and suggestions for further reading. Ruskin's original illustrations, essential for the understanding of his argument, are reproduced. This edition will at last make Fors Clavigera -- disturbing and endlessly fascinating -- available to modern readers.

About the author

Dinah Birch is Fellow and Tutor in English at Trinity College, Oxford

Summary

"Fors Clavigera", John Ruskin's serial, "Letters to the Workman of Great Britain" is considered his most controversial work. This edition of the text provides an extensive selection of the writing in "Fors Clavigera", including several complete letters and sequences.

Product details

• Authors: Dinah Birch, John Ruskin
• Assisted by: Dinah Birch (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781853311253
• ISBN: 978-1-85331-125-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 789 g
• Series: Whitehouse Edition of John Rus; The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin; Whitehouse Edition of John Rus; The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies