Writing on the Image : : Reading William Morris /

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

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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...

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Latham, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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

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