Writing on the Image : : Reading William Morris / / David Latham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Latham, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Writing on the Image: How We Write and How We Might Write / Latham, David -- 2. (Dis)continuities: Arthur's Tomb, Modern Painters, and Morris's Early Wallpaper Designs / Bentley, D.M.R. -- 3. William Morris, Shaper of Tales: Creating a Hero's Story in 'Sir Peter Harpdon's End' / Friesen, Janet Wright -- 4. Medea and Circe as 'Wise' Women in the Poetry of William Morris and Augusta Webster / Boos, Florence S. -- 5. Morris and the Muse: Gender and Aestheticism in William Morris's 'Pymgalion and the Image' / Thomas, Jane -- 6. The River at the Heart of Morris's Ecological Thought / Faldet, David -- 7. News from Nowhere as Autoethnography: A Future History of 'Home Colonization' / Herbert, Karen -- 8. Clothes from Nowhere: Costume as Social Symbol in the Work of William Morris / Campbell, Wanda -- 9. To Live in the Present: News from Nowhere and the Representation of the Present in Late Victorian Utopian Fiction / Beaumont, Matthew -- 10. 'Paradyse Erthly': John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision / Cowan, Yuri -- 11. 'To Frame a Desire': Morris's Ideology of Work and Play / Latham, David -- 12. History Becomes Geography: Tracing Morris's Later Thought / Kirchhoff, Frederick -- 13. Socialist Fellowship and the Woman Question / Kinna, Ruth -- 14. The Reception of Willam Morris's Beowulf / Jones, Chris -- 15. Morris's Compromises: On Victorian Editorial Theory and the Kelmscott Chaucer / Laporte, Charles -- 16. 'The Dream of William Morris': Marya Zaturenska's Lost Essay / Londraville, Janis -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index