The Writings of John Ruskin: A Partial List

General

• A Brief Introduction to His Life and Works

The King of the Golden River, 1841

• John Ruskin and The Literary Fairy Tale
• As literary fantasy

Modern Painters, 1843-60

• Interarts Criticism -- Painting, Poetry, and Architecture as Sister Arts
  • Ruskin and the tradition of ut pictora poesis
  • The use and moral value of art
  • Painting and poetry as expressive arts
  • Implications of the alliance
  • Ruskin on the Grotesque
  • The Symbolical Grotesque theories of allegory, artist, and imagination
  • Imitation, the Languages of Art, and Nature's Infinite Variety
  • Pathetic Fallacy
• Aesthetic Theories
  • Ruskin's refutation of "False Opinions Held concerning Beauty"
  • Typical Beauty
  • Vital Beauty
  • Sublimity
  • The Picturesque

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1848

• inspired revival of the Adobe Style of the American Southwest.

The Stones of Venice, 1851-53

• Introduction
• "On the Nature of Gothic"
• The Grotesque

"A Joy Forever" 1857

• John Ruskin's Political Economy of Art: Valuing Victorian Artist's Labor

Unto this Last, 1860

• Introduction
• Ruskinian satiric definition
• A Symbolical Grotesque from Ruskin's "The Roots of Honor"
• Mocking Pseudo-Science in "The Roots of Honor"
• Margaret Oliphant on Unto This Last

Sesame and Lillies, 1864-69

The Crown of Wild Olive

• "Work" (text) (discussions)
• "Traffic," 1858 (discussions)

Fors Clavigera, 1871-84

• Associates artist and worker
• Sympathy and the Sympathetic Imagination
• Narrates loss of belief -- compared to Praeteria
• Religion of humanity
• Symbolism and Concealed Meanings

Ruskin's Oxford Lectures

• Ruskin's 1883 Lecture on the "Realistic Schools of Painting"

Praeterita, 1886-88

• Introduction
• Early religious training and belief
• Loss of belief
• Return to belief
• Ruskin interpreting Ruskin (chapter in the Oxford "Past Masters" volume on Ruskin

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