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Title: Ruskin's God (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Michael Wheeler, Gillian Beer ISBN: 0-521-57414-5 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1

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Summary: The Persistence of Ruskin's Religious Impulse
Comment: Michael Wheeler argues convincingly that, despite his own protests to the contrary, John Ruskin was influenced throughout his life by his deepseated belief in a benevolent God. This thesis runs counter to conventional critical opinion that holds Ruskin abandoned religious belief in 1858, and that his later work provides a secular alternative to organized religion.

This work is well researched and intended for other scholars. Even the literate, well-read generalist outside 19th century studies may have difficulty tracing Wheeler's argument, since he references hundreds of works by Ruskin and by those who have written about him in the past century. Nevertheless, the argument is well constructed and should serve as a corrective to the tendency of postmodernist critics to revel in the agnosticism and atheism that pops up in several of Ruskin's writings during the middle years of his career.