The Cambridge Companion to William Morris

Herausgeber: Waithe, Marcus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 accessible volume gathers influential, cross-disciplinary voices who have participated in his recent critical, political, and curatorial revival.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781108940634
• ISBN-10: 1108940633
• Artikelnr.: 69566498

Inhaltsangabe

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.