A01=William Morris
Author_William Morris
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essays
Labour Party history
nineteenth century Britain
socialism
William Morris
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- ISBN 9781399548519
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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William Morris's socialist essays remain uncannily relevant for our time, as he addresses issues of inequality, precarity, and the need for pleasure and creative fulfilment in work and life. This scholarly edition traces Morris's opinions from his early insistence that all must have access to art in its broadest sense, through his years as a leader and theorist of the nascent British socialist movement. Finally, as Morris became the elder statesman of the socialist/labour cause, these writings demonstrate his efforts to reconcile competing factions in the service of common aims.
Florence S. Boos is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. The founder and general editor of the William Morris Archive, she has also edited Morris’s Socialist Diary, The Earthly Paradise, and most recently, The Routledge Companion to William Morris. Her books on Morris include History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris and The Design of the Earthly Paradise. She is also the editor/author of two books on Victorian working-class women’s poetry and memoirs.
