The Cambridge companion to William Morris /

In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent cr...

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Introduction /
Oxford /
Red House /
Kelmscott Manor /
The Thames Basin /
Experimental medievalism : the defence of Guenevere and other poems (1858) /
Troubling the heroic ideal : Morris's midlife poetry /
Skaldic Morris : translations from Old Norse /
'[T]he whole man' : Morris's public lectures /
Northern epic : Sigurd the Volsung (1876) /
Utopian fiction : News from nowhere (1890; 1891) /
Morris's prose romances and the origins of fantasy /
Morris & Company : the poet as decorator /
Pattern : textiles and wallpaper /
Technologies of the book : revisiting the Kelmscott Press /
Part IV. Movements and causes.
Practical socialism : newspaper and propaganda work /
Ingrid Hanson --
Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement /
Female fellowship : Morris, feminism and the new woman /
Landscape and environment /
Morris and John Ruskin /
Morris and Marxism /
William Morris's 'medieval modern' afterlives /
Morris in the twenty-first century /
1. Verfasser:
Waithe, Marcus
Weitere Verfasser:
Waithe, Marcus (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent critical, political, and curatorial revival of his work, with essays exploring the contemporary resonance of his exceptional legacy. As a critic of capitalism, his thinking has thrived in these years of financial crisis; as a theorist of work and craftsmanship, his legacy interacts with a more recent ethics of making that questions the values of 'off-shored' production; and as a protector of landscape and buildings Morris's concern with what is precious strikes a chord in our age of environmental crisis. At the same time, a careful and scholarly approach observes the particularity of Morris's context, in a way that confounds the 'false friends' of hasty historical reception and reveals unexpected connections.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxvii, 323 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2024).
ISBN:
9781108944694
1108944698
9781108945455
1108945457
9781108939942
1108939945
Schlagworte:
Morris, William, > 1834-1896.
Morris, William, > 1834-1896 > Criticism and interpretation.
Morris, William, > 1834-1896 > Political and social views.
Morris, William, > 1834-1896 > Homes and haunts.
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