William Morris’s Utopianism
Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration
Authors: Holland, Owen
Free Preview- Advances a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism through an analysis of his political writings
- Examines the relationship between Morris’s utopianism and first-wave feminism, pastoralism, romance revivalism and imperialism
- Revises the Miguel Abensour and E.P. Thompson’s argument that Morris’s utopian writing should be perceived as anti-political
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- About this book
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This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the life-world of the fin de siècle socialist movement, as well as the dominant literary cultures of his day. Owen Holland demonstrates this by placing Morris in conversation with writers of first-wave feminism, nineteenth-century pastoralists, as well as the romance revivalists and imperialists of the 1880s. In doing so, he revises E.P. Thompson’s and Miguel Abensour’s argument that Morris’s utopian writing should be conceived as anti-political and heuristic, concerned with the pedagogic education of desire, rather than with the more mundane work of propaganda. He shows how Morris’s utopianism emerged against the grain of the now-here, embroiled in instrumental, propagandistic polemic, complicating Thompson’s and Abensour’s view of its anti-political character.
- About the authors
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Owen Holland is Career Development Fellow in Victorian and Modern Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, UK. He is also editor of The Journal of William Morris Studies.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: No-Where and Now-Here
Pages 3-28
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Twentieth-Century Critical Readings critical readings of Nowhere of Morris’s Utopianism
Pages 29-48
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At the Crossroads of Socialism and First-Wave Feminism feminism
Pages 51-103
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The Pastoral Structure of Feeling pastoral structure of feeling in Morris’s Utopianism
Pages 105-180
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Imperialism, Colonialism imperialism and colonialism and Internationalism internationalism
Pages 181-248
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- William Morris’s Utopianism
- Book Subtitle
- Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration
- Authors
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- Owen Holland
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-59602-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-59602-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-59601-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86661-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 337
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics
