Books in Brief

Abstract

Finds Alexander Bradley’s Ruskin and Italy (1987) useful but at times indirect and confusing, while Michael Metterer’s translation of Friedrich Kittler’s Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (1990) is intriguing and insightful; judges the translation of Marcel Proust’s criticism reprinted in On Reading Ruskin (1987) a helpful addition to Ruskin studies. Offers brief summaries of Theodore Koditschek’s Class Formation and Urban- Industrial Society: Bradford 1750-1850 (1990) and Thomas Richards’ The Commodity Culture of Victorian England (1990).