The Routledge Companion to William Morris

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-56088-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1480 g

Reihe: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.

This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic.

Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boos, Florence S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Buchgestaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Visions Not Dreams: Morris as Designer, Socialist, Entrepreneur, Poet.

Florence S. Boos

Part I: Morris’s Life, Family, and Environs

1. Morris’s Biographies

Michael Robertson

2 Business in the Creative Life of William Morris

Charles Harvey, Jon Press and Mairi Maclean

3. Morris, Family, and the Woman Question

Florence S. Boos

4. 'Kelmscott Manor. Mr Morris’s Country Place' (1871–1896)

Julia Griffin

5. 'What came we forth for to see that our hearts are so hot with desire': Morris and Iceland

Martin Stott

Part II: Art: Preservation, Interior Design, and Adaptations

6. Morris and Architecture

Christopher Miele

7. William Morris and Stained Glass

Jim Cheshire

8. William Morris and Interior Design

Margaretta S. Frederick

9. William Morris and the Culture Industry: Appropriation, Art, Critique

Compiled by David Mabb

Part III: Literature: Poetry, Art, Translation, and Fantasy

10. A Question of Ornament: Poetry and the (Lesser) Arts

Elizabeth Helsinger

11. Making Pictures: Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and Its Reception

David Latham

12. William Morris and the Classical Tradition

William Whitla

13 A Very Animated Conversation on Icelandic Matters: The Saga Translations of William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon

Paul Acker

14. Rewilding Morris: Wilderness and the Wild in the Last Romances

Phillippa Bennett

15. Windy, Tangible, Resonant Worlds: The Nonhuman Fantasy of William Morris

John Plotz

Part IV: Literature and Socialism

16. William Morris and British Politics: From the Liberal Party to the Socialist League

Frank C. Sharp

17. News from Nowhere in the Museum of Literary Interpretations

Tony Pinkney

18. Literature and Socialism of the Commonweal

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

19. Desire and Necessity: William Morris and Nature

Patrick O’Sullivan

20. Morris and Marxist Theory

Owen Holland

Part V: Books: Collecting and Design

21 William Morris’s Book Collecting

Yuri Cowan

22. William Morris and the Kelmscott Press: Towards an Aesthetics of Environment

Nicholas Frankel

Über Autor(innen)

Florence S. Boos is the author of two books on Morris’s poetry. She has also edited several of his works, and is the general editor of the William Morris Archive.