This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer, cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible form.
Written by a group of international scholars who took part in a conference marking the centenary of the death of Morris in 1896, the book has sections devoted to Morris and Literature (covering texts from The Earthly Paradise to the late romances); Morris, the Arts & Crafts and the New World (including discussions of his influence in Rhode Island, Boston, Ontario and New Zealand); and Morris, Gender and Politics (with fresh consideration of his relation to Victorian ideas of manliness and of the particular qualities of his anti-statist politics). The latter section also draws attention to a hitherto unknown play by Morris's daughter May and concludes with an account of his biographer, the late E.P. Thompson.
| ISBN: | 9780859895774 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 1999 |
| Author: | Peter Faulkner, Peter Preston, Morris Centenary Conference |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies History of art Individual artists, art monographs Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration |