{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-william-morris-paperback-softback-9781108940634","title":"The Cambridge Companion to William Morris (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108940634","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to William Morris\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA vibrant gathering of influential voices who have participated in the critical, political, and curatorial revival of William Morris's work.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarcus Waithe (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108940634, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'[A] comprehensive collection of essays that explores the full extent of Morris's multiplicity.' Dinah Birch, The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent critical, political, and curatorial revival of his work, with essays exploring the contemporary resonance of his exceptional legacy. As a critic of capitalism, his thinking has thrived in these years of financial crisis; as a theorist of work and craftsmanship, his legacy interacts with a more recent ethics of making that questions the values of 'off-shored' production; and as a protector of landscape and buildings Morris's concern with what is precious strikes a chord in our age of environmental crisis. At the same time, a careful and scholarly approach observes the particularity of Morris's context, in a way that confounds the 'false friends' of hasty historical reception and reveals unexpected connections.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Senses of Place: Introduction Marcus Waithe\u003cbr\u003e 1. Oxford Tony Pinkney\u003cbr\u003e 2. Red House Tessa Wild\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Thames Basin Clive Wilmer\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Authorship: 5. Experimental medievalism: The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems (1858) Martin Dubois\u003cbr\u003e 6. Troubling the heroic ideal: Morris's midlife poetry Florence Boos\u003cbr\u003e 7. Skaldic Morris: Translations from Old Norse Heather O'Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e 8. '[T]he whole man': Morris's public lectures Simon Grimble\u003cbr\u003e 9. Northern epic: Sigurd the Volsung (1876) Herbert Tucker\u003cbr\u003e 10. Utopian fiction: News from Nowhere (1890\u003cbr\u003e 1891) Matthew Beaumont\u003cbr\u003e 11. Morris's prose romances and the origins of fantasy Anna Vaninskaya\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Practical Arts: 12. Morris \u0026amp; Company: The poet as decorator Elizabeth Helsinger\u003cbr\u003e 13. Pattern: Textiles and wallpaper Caroline Arscott\u003cbr\u003e 14. Technologies of the book: Revisiting the Kelmscott Press Marcus Waithe\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Movements and Causes: 15. Practical socialism: Newspaper and propaganda work Ingrid Hanson\u003cbr\u003e 16. Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement Mary Greensted\u003cbr\u003e 17. Female fellowship: Morris, feminism and the New Woman Zoë Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 18. Landscape and environment Elizabeth Carolyn Miller\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Influences and Legacies: 19. Morris and John Ruskin Stuart Eagles\u003cbr\u003e 20. Morris and Marxism Ruth Levitas\u003cbr\u003e 21. William Morris's 'Medieval Modern' afterlives Michael T. Saler\u003cbr\u003e 22. Morris in the twenty-first century Sara Atwood.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52165806194968,"sku":"9781108940634","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108940634i.jpg?v=1781100921","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-william-morris-paperback-softback-9781108940634","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}