Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles (ed.), William Morris in the Twenty-First Century

This collection is devoted to assessments of the work of William Morris (1834–96), Victorian poet, designer and socialist theorist of art and labor. Of thirteen articles, six are devoted to his poetry and romances. In ‘Versions of Ecotopia in News from Nowhere’ (93–106), Tony Pinkney considers the...

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Auteur principal: Boos, Florence
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2013
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This collection is devoted to assessments of the work of William Morris (1834–96), Victorian poet, designer and socialist theorist of art and labor. Of thirteen articles, six are devoted to his poetry and romances. In ‘Versions of Ecotopia in News from Nowhere’ (93–106), Tony Pinkney considers the familiar problem of whether Morris’s utopia is static. He finds four of John Ruskin’s ‘elements of life’ present in Morris’s work (namely ‘Pure Air, [Pure] Water, and Earth’), but not the fifth (‘F...