The Routledge Companion to William Morris (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Boos, Florence S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William Morris (1834-96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.

This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris's multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic.

Morris's eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351859004
• Artikelnr.: 60309436

Autorenporträt

Florence S. Boos is the author of two books on Morris's poetry. She has also edited several of his works, and is the general editor of the William Morris Archive.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Visions Not Dreams: Morris as Designer, Socialist,
Entrepreneur, Poet . . .
Florence S. Boos
Part I: Morris's Life, Family, and Environs
1. Morris's Biographies
Michael Robertson
2 Business in the Creative Life of William Morris
Charles Harvey, Jon Press and Mairi Maclean
3. Morris, Family, and the Woman Question
Florence S. Boos
4. 'Kelmscott Manor. Mr Morris's Country Place' (1871-1896)
Julia Griffin
5. 'What came we forth for to see that our hearts are so hot with desire':
Morris and Iceland
Martin Stott
Part II: Art: Preservation, Interior Design, and Adaptations
6. Morris and Architecture
Christopher Miele
7. William Morris and Stained Glass
Jim Cheshire
8. William Morris and Interior Design
Margaretta S. Frederick
9. William Morris and the Culture Industry: Appropriation, Art, Critique
Compiled by David Mabb
Part III: Literature: Poetry, Art, Translation, and Fantasy
10. A Question of Ornament: Poetry and the (Lesser) Arts
Elizabeth Helsinger
11. Making Pictures: Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and Its Reception
David Latham
12. William Morris and the Classical Tradition
William Whitla
13 A Very Animated Conversation on Icelandic Matters: The Saga Translations
of William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon
Paul Acker
14. Rewilding Morris: Wilderness and the Wild in the Last Romances
Phillippa Bennett
15. Windy, Tangible, Resonant Worlds: The Nonhuman Fantasy of William
Morris
John Plotz
Part IV: Literature and Socialism
16. William Morris and British Politics: From the Liberal Party to the
Socialist League
Frank C. Sharp
17. News from Nowhere in the Museum of Literary Interpretations
Tony Pinkney
18. Literature and Socialism of the Commonweal
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
19. Desire and Necessity: William Morris and Nature
Patrick O'Sullivan
20. Morris and Marxist Theory
Owen Holland
Part V: Books: Collecting and Design
21 William Morris's Book Collecting
Yuri Cowan
22. William Morris and the Kelmscott Press: Towards an Aesthetics of
Environment
Nicholas Frankel