| William Morris: Centenary Essays Contributor(s): Preston, Peter (Contribution by), Talbot, Norman (Contribution by), Beade, Pedro (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0859895777 ISBN-13: 9780859895774 Publisher: University of Exeter Press OUR PRICE: $110.88 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General |
| Dewey: 828.809 |
| LCCN: 2003430249 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.48" W x 9.94" (1.58 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer, cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible form. Written by a group of international scholars who took part in a conference marking the centenary of the death of Morris in 1896, the book has sections devoted to Morris and Literature (covering texts from The Earthly Paradise to the late romances); Morris, the Arts & Crafts and the New World (including discussions of his influence in Rhode Island, Boston, Ontario and New Zealand); and Morris, Gender and Politics (with fresh consideration of his relation to Victorian ideas of manliness and of the particular qualities of his anti-statist politics). The latter section also draws attention to a hitherto unknown play by Morris's daughter May and concludes with an account of his biographer, the late E.P. Thompson. |