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Mark Frost
My research interests arise out of the works of John Ruskin, and have a particular emphasis on nineteenthcentury scientific contexts and the interplay in Ruskin’s work of materiality, creativity, and culture. I am current researching the contextualisation of Ruskin’s natural histories in relation to eighteenth century scientific models, nineteenth-century materialism (and especially the twin sciences of ecology and evolutionary theory), Evangelicalism, and Romanticism. This will take the form of a monograph proposal, but has also yielded articles in Journal of Victorian Culture, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (both forthcoming) and Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies.
Recent archival research has led to a contracted
monograph on Ruskin’s Guild of St. George, due in December 2012, the first standard work on this subject for thirty years. I am an annotations contributor to the Routledge ABES project and was also involved in the Leverhulme-funded Electronic Edition of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters I at the Ruskin Programme, Lancaster University.