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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.
Table des matières
Introduction. Visions Not Dreams: Morris as Designer, Socialist, Entrepreneur, Poet . . .
Florence S. BoosPart I: Morris's Life, Family, and Environs
1. Morris's Biographies
Michael Robertson2 Business in the Creative Life of William Morris
Charles Harvey, Jon Press and Mairi Maclean 3. Morris, Family, and the Woman Question
Florence S. Boos4. 'Kelmscott Manor. Mr Morris's Country Place' (1871-1896)
Julia Griffin5. 'What came we forth for to see that our hearts are so hot with desire': Morris and Iceland
Martin StottPart II: Art: Preservation, Interior Design, and Adaptations
6. Morris and Architecture
Christopher Miele7. William Morris and Stained Glass
Jim Cheshire8. William Morris and Interior Design
Margaretta S. Frederick9. 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 Helsinger11. Making Pictures: Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and Its Reception
David Latham12. William Morris and the Classical Tradition
William Whitla13 A Very Animated Conversation on Icelandic Matters: The Saga Translations of William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon
Paul Acker14. Rewilding Morris: Wilderness and the Wild in the Last Romances
Phillippa Bennett15. 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. Sharp17.
News from Nowhere in the Museum of Literary Interpretations
Tony Pinkney 18. Literature and Socialism of the
CommonwealElizabeth Carolyn Miller19. Desire and Necessity: William Morris and Nature
Patrick O'Sullivan20. Morris and Marxist Theory
Owen HollandPart V: Books: Collecting and Design
21 William Morris's Book Collecting
Yuri Cowan22. William Morris and the Kelmscott Press: Towards an Aesthetics of Environment
Nicholas Frankel
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
