William Morris: Centenary Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780859895774)

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.

Author: Peter Preston
ISBN-10: 0859895777
ISBN-13: 9780859895774
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1999
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.94h x 6.48w x 0.94d