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Author:   Marcus Waithe (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781108832175

ISBN 10:   1108832172
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   23 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Senses of Place: Introduction Marcus Waithe; 1. Oxford Tony Pinkney; 2. Red House Tessa Wild; 3. The Thames Basin Clive Wilmer; Part II. Authorship: 5. Experimental medievalism: The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems (1858) Martin Dubois; 6. Troubling the heroic ideal: Morris's midlife poetry Florence Boos; 7. Skaldic Morris: Translations from Old Norse Heather O'Donoghue; 8. '[T]he whole man': Morris's public lectures Simon Grimble; 9. Northern epic: Sigurd the Volsung (1876) Herbert Tucker; 10. Utopian fiction: News from Nowhere (1890; 1891) Matthew Beaumont; 11. Morris's prose romances and the origins of fantasy Anna Vaninskaya; Part III. The Practical Arts: 12. Morris & Company: The poet as decorator Elizabeth Helsinger; 13. Pattern: Textiles and wallpaper Caroline Arscott; 14. Technologies of the book: Revisiting the Kelmscott Press Marcus Waithe; Part IV. Movements and Causes: 15. Practical socialism: Newspaper and propaganda work Ingrid Hanson; 16. Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement Mary Greensted; 17. Female fellowship: Morris, feminism and the New Woman Zoë Thomas; 18. Landscape and environment Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; Part V. Influences and Legacies: 19. Morris and John Ruskin Stuart Eagles; 20. Morris and Marxism Ruth Levitas; 21. William Morris's 'Medieval Modern' afterlives Michael T. Saler; 22. Morris in the twenty-first century Sara Atwood.

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‘Ingrid hanson's wide-ranging selection from William Morris's prolific writings identifies new points of interest in his ouevre without neglecting those parts of it that mattered most to earlier generations.’ Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Marcus Waithe is Professor of Literature and the Applied Arts at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Work of Words (2023), Words Made Stone (co-written with Lida Cardozo Kindersley) (2022), Thinking through Style (co-edited with Michael Hurley) (2018), The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 (co-edited with Claire White) (2018), and William Morris's Utopia of Strangers (2016).

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