How much should be spent in maintaining Edinburgh Castle? What payment should be provided to landowners to persuade them to preserve the environment or to protect wildlife under their control? What support should be offered by government to the arts? Policy makers are often confronted with the problem of trying to assess the value of a feature of our cultural heritage, of our environment, or of some artistic endeavour when there are either no reliable market prices or when the prices that do exist cover only part of the overall benefit derived by society. This is where the contingent valuation method offers a solution. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of the use of this technique. Using extensive examples from all three areas of heritage, environment and the arts, the coverage is comprehensive and rooted in practice, although it also includes a non-technical introduction to theory that underpins the method. This is an exciting volume that addresses issues that are increasingly finding their way onto the public policy agenda and demonstrates how decision makers can be usefully informed through careful use of contingent evaluation.

Heritage, the Environment and the Arts: Pricing the priceless: Hume Papers on Public Policy Volume 6 No 3

Business & Money

Willis, K. G.

Garrod, G.D.

Hanley, Keith

Management & Leadership

Edinburgh University Press

Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin's work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin's continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin's persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin's intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin's followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin's work and teaching. Working-class education, the Ruskinian periodical, plays, and science fiction are all considered along with the Bloomsbury Group's engagement with Ruskin's thought and writing. Essays on Ruskin abroad-in America, Australia, and India round out the collection.

Persistent Ruskin (Nineteenth Century)

Reference

Routledge

Analysis of gender dynamics is providing some of the most exciting and innovative research in the field of contemporary Romantic studies. This collection reflects that interest and examines in particular the points at which women Romantic writers anticipate, resist and intersect with the literary productions of their male contemporaries. International scholars provide contributions which range from an examination of Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' to the crossings of gender and class to be found in the English dialect writing of Ann Wheeler of Westmoreland.

Romantic Masculinities: News From Nowhere Vol.2

Literature & Fiction

Botting, Fred

Pinkney, Tony

British & Irish

John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorize the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination with geology found its earliest expression in journal articles from the age of fifteen, while his considerable talents as a draughtsman were developed by leading drawing masters before he was sixteen. Rather than being a prodigy in one particular field, it was his precocious mix of religion, science and art that laid the foundations for the fulfillment of his career as a critic of art, architecture and society. The cultural tours that he made with his family as he grew up provided the crucial focus for these developing interests, and the second extended tour of the Continent in 1835 at the age of sixteen in particular established the paradigm for his orchestrated representation and analysis of cultural experience along 'the old road', though France to Chamonix, and through the Swiss Alps to northern Italy as far as Venice. His diary of the journey and associated writings, together with the numerous drawings he made in relation to it, are annotated and fully catalogued for the first time in this edition that includes maps and an introductory essay. Keith Hanley is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Caroline S. Hull is a freelance academic writer and researcher.

John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835: The Written Records and Drawings (Legenda Main)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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