O Poder do Pó: O Pensamento Social e Político de John Ruskin

by Iolanda Ramos

542 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Iolanda Ramos is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, where she teaches English Studies and Translation Studies. She has published extensively in Victorian Studies, mainly on political, economic and gender issues within the framework of Cultural Studies and Utopian Studies. Her Ph.D. thesis on Ruskin’s social and political thought, entitled O Poder do Pó: O Pensamento Social e Político de John Ruskin 1819-1900, was published by the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2002.

Since 2004, she has been carrying out research as part of the project “Mapping Dreams: British and North-American Utopianism” within the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). She is a member of the Advisory Board of Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal and editor of nr. 2 in 2006 ( ISSN 1646-4729). Her research interests include visual studies, imperial and racial studies, interculturality and cross-cultural communication.