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• Introduction. Visions Not Dreams: Morris as Designer, Socialist, Entrepreneur, Poet . . . .
• Florence S. Boos
• Section 1: 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
• Section 2: Art: Preservation, Interior Design and Adaptations
• 6. Morris and Architecture
• Christopher Miele
• 7. William Morris and Stained Glass
• Jim Cheshire
• 8. William Morris and the Rise of Interior Design
• Margaretta Frederick
• 9. William Morris and the Culture Industry: Appropriation, Art, Critique
• David Mabb
• Section 3: Literature: Poetry, Art, Translation and Fantasy
• 10. A Question of Ornament: Poetry and the (Lesser) Arts
• Elizabeth Helsinger
• 11. Making Pictures: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Its Reception"
• David Latham
• 12. William Whitla's "William Morris and the Classical Tradition"
• William Whitla
• 13 "A Very Animated Conversation on Icelandic Matters": The Saga Translations of William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson
• Paul Acker
• 14. Rewilding Morris: Wilderness and the Wild in the Last Romances
• Phillippa Bennett
• 15. Windy, Tangible, Resonant Worlds: The Non-Human Fantasy of William Morris
• John Plotz
• Section 4: 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. William Morris and the Literature and Socialism of the Commonweal
• Elizabeth C. Miller
• 19. Desire and Necessity: William Morris and Nature
• Patrick O'Sullivan
• 20. Morris and Marxist Theory
• Owen Holland
• Section 5: Books: Collecting and Design
• 21 William Morris's Book Collecting
• Yuri Cowan
• 22. William Morris and the Kelmscott Press
• Nicholas Frankel.
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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. 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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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Die vorliegende Publikation will William Morris' umfassendes kunsttheoretisches Werk und seine Arbeiten im Bereich der angewandten Künste exemplarisch und erklärend zusammenzuführen sowie in Hinblick auf gemeinsame zugrunde liegende Motivationen und Anliegen betrachten. In seinen Aufsätzen und Vorträgen formulierte Intentionen, der Charakter und die Aussage der künstlerischen Werke werden einander gegenübergestellt; dabei wird zugleich überprüft, inwieweit Morris den eigenen Vorgaben folgt. Das Nebeneinanderstellen von Äußerung und Werk soll zugleich die Untrennbarkeit der beiden Bereiche für Morris darlegen. Als Leitmotive in der Auswahl der Texte wurden das Mittelalter, die Einheit der freien und angewandten Künste, Handwerk und industrielle Fertigung, die Rolle des Arbeiters sowie das Verhältnis zur Natur gewählt. Morris' Anliegen war die Gestaltung 'moderner', der eigenen Zeit und ihren Bedürfnissen entsprechenden Gegenstände.

Representing a spectrum of critical approaches and topics, these essays explore the interconnections between Morris' political thought and his later writings. They consider a variety of works, from socialist songs to theories of art.
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• Preface Writing on the Image: How We Write and How We Might Write DAVID LATHAM (Dis)continuities: Arthur's Tomb, Modern
• Painters,
• and Morris's Early Wallpaper Designs D.M.R. BENTLEY William Morris, Shaper of Tales: Creating a Hero's Story in 'Sir Peter Harpdon's End' JANET
• WRIGHT FRIESEN Medea and Circe as 'Wise' Women in the Poetry of William Morris and Augusta Webster FLORENCE S. BOOS Morris and the Muse: Gender and Aestheticism in William Morris's 'Pymgalion and the Image' JANE
• THOMAS The River at the Heart of Morris's Ecological Thought DAVID
• FALDET News from Nowhere as
• Autoethnography: A Future History of 'Home Colonization' KAREN
• HERBERT Clothes from Nowhere: Costume as Social Symbol in the Work of William Morris WANDA
• CAMPBELL To Live in the Present: News
• from Nowhere and
• the Representation of the Present in Late Victorian Utopian Fiction MATTHEW
• BEAUMONT 'Paradyse Erthly': John
• Ball and the
• Medieval Dream-Vision YURI
• COWAN 'To Frame a Desire': Morris's Ideology of Work and Play DAVID
• LATHAM History Becomes Geography: Tracing Morris's Later Thought FREDERICK
• KIRCHHOFF Socialist Fellowship and the Woman Question RUTH
• KINNA The Reception of Willam Morris's Beowulf
• CHRIS
• JONES Morris's Compromises:On
• Victorian Editorial Theory and the Kelmscott Chaucer
• CHARLES
• LAPORTE 'The Dream of William Morris': Marya Zaturenska's Lost Essay JANIS
• LONDRAVILLEBibliographyContributorsIndex.
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William Morris was a Victorian master of all trades, standing at the forefront of five historic movements in western culture. As the author of The Defence of Guenevere in 1858, he wrote the first book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry. Co-founder of Morris & Co. in 1861, he was the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, designing textiles, wallpapers, and stained glass. Editor of The Commonweal for the Socialist League in the 1880s and lecturing at political rallies, he was the leader of the socialist movement for revolution in Britain. Founder of the Kelmscott Press in 1891, he was the leader of the private-press movement with his Kelmscott Chaucer among the most beautiful books ever printed. The innovative author of eight prose romances in the 1890s, he was the leading force in shifting the genre of fiction from the novel to the romance, the primary influence on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Writing on the Image is a collection of essays that showcases the varied canon of Morris. The essays demonstrate how the most revolutionary artist, writer, and socialist of the nineteenth century now stands at the centre of interdisciplinary studies in the twenty-first century, challenging academics and artisans alike to pursue an ideal community of scholarship, craftsmanship, and subversive statesmanship.
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