Robert Blatchford’s The Sorcery Shop: Another Socialist Utopia
William Morris and Robert Blatchford were amongst the reformers at the end of the nineteenth century who fought relentlessly for the advent of socialism in England. Convinced of men’s perfectibility once their country was rid of the environmental misery that capitalism had brought in its wake, and h...
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2019
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | William Morris and Robert Blatchford were amongst the reformers at the end of the nineteenth century who fought relentlessly for the advent of socialism in England. Convinced of men’s perfectibility once their country was rid of the environmental misery that capitalism had brought in its wake, and had recovered its architectural and natural beauty, they believed in Utopia as an effective means of propaganda for the workers. This article underlines the heavy debt of Blatchford’s The Sorcery Shop to Morris’s News From Nowhere and the common roots of their socialist faith. |
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