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William Morris
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- ISBN 9781474458085
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Presents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decade
The first collection of new Morris essays in several decades, gathered from manuscripts, newspapers and long out-of-print contemporary sources
Follows Morris's development from a youthful art reformer and anti-imperialist through his years as a skilled political theorist and widely influential pan-socialist presence
Adds to our understanding of Morris's views on competition, war, violence, social justice and the need to protect our natural environment
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.
