John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination
Denis Cosgrove selects works from Ruskin’s Teaching Collection and reveals a poetry of landscape that inspired geographical learning a century ago.
Further Reading
Denis E. Cosgrove, 'John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination', Geographical Review, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan., 1979), pp. 43-62 (article consists of 20 pages), American Geographical Society. http://www.jstor.org/stable/214236
The Works of Ruskin, Library Edition, 39 volumes, edited by E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, George Allen, London, 1903-1912.
Robert Hewison, Ruskin and Oxford: the Art of Education, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996.
J.F. Heyes, 'A plea for geography', The Oxford Magazine, Oxford, 1886, pp. 8-12. The copy in the School of Geography archives is attached to an annotated manuscript by Heyes with the words: 'Geosophy: a concept and an ideal in 1887 when resident in Oxford.' This sketches a vision of geography much closer to natural theology.
Paul Wilson, '"Over yonder are the Andes": Reading Ruskin reading Humboldt' in Michael Wheeler (ed.), Time & Tide: Ruskin and Science, Pilkington Press, London, 1996, pp. 65-84.
