The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District
Edición de la obra Green Victorians
| Autor | Vicky Albritton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Albritton |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 224 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780226339986 |
| OCLC | 915159335 |
| LCCN | 2015029031 |
| Número de Cutter | A342g |
From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life - one without constant, environmentally damaging growth - might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. 'Green Victorians' tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community.