The Routledge Companion to William Morris

• Main Author: Boos, Florence S.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
• Subjects: 19th Century Literature; Art & Visual Culture; arts and crafts; avant garde; Avant-Garde Art; book design; British History; British Literature; Business practices; Conservation - Environment Studies; Decorative artwork; Design History; England; environmentalism; History of Art; interior design; literature; Marxism; Marxism & Communism; Medieval architecture; Modern History 1750-1945; Morris, William, 1834-1896 > Criticism and interpretation; nineteenth century; Poetry; Political activism; Pre-Raphaelites; preservation; romance literature; social theory; Socialism; Translation; travel writing; utopia literature; Victorian studies; William Morris; Young Man; Red Lion Square; East Window; Kelmscott House; Earthly Paradise; Kelmscott Press; SPAB; Calligraphic Manuscripts; Wondrous Isles; Kelmscott Manor; Stained Glass; Kelmscott Chaucer; Sundering Flood; Red House; Water House; Socialist League; Wall Hangings; Kelmscott Press Edition; Natural World; Wardour Street English; Golden Wings; Devon Great Consols; Emery Walker; John Ball; WILLIAM MORRIS
• ISBN: 0415347432; 0367560887; 9780415347433; 9780367560881
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315229416

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...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visions Not Dreams: Morris as Designer, Socialist, Entrepreneur, Poet … -- Part I: Morris's Life, Family, and Environs -- Part II: Art: Preservation, Interior Design, and Adaptation -- Part III: Literature: Poetry, Art, Translation, and Fantasy -- Part IV: Literature and Socialism -- Part V: Books: Collecting and Design -- Note -- Part I Morris's Life, Family, and Environs -- Chapter 1 Morris Biographies -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Business in the Creative Life of William Morris -- Introduction -- The Morris Family in Business -- Morris and the Firm -- Morris the Business Leader -- Establishing the Morrisian Community of Taste -- Morris as Cultural Icon -- The Kelmscott Press -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Morris, Gender, and the Woman Question -- The Women in Morris's Life -- Morris and Socialist Feminism -- Patterns in Morris's Literary Portrayals of Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Chapter 4 'Kelmscott Manor. Mr Morris's Country Place' (1871-1896) -- The Question of Sources -- PART I. Literature Review: State of Knowledge on Morris at Kelmscott -- PART II. New Study on Morris's Relationship with Kelmscott -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 5 'What came we forth for to see that our hearts are so hot with desire': Morris and Iceland -- Synopsis -- Introduction: Why Morris Went to Iceland and Why It Matters -- Iceland in the Victorian Imagination -- Earlier Discussions of the Icelandic Journals -- The Personal and the Spiritual -- The Journalist, the Poet and the 'Travel Writer' -- Morris's Impact in Iceland -- Sustaining Morris's Legacy
• The 1960s Revival of Fantasy Fiction -- Morris the 'Travel Writer' Rediscovered -- Morris's Influence on Fantasy Genres: Literature, Games, Comics and Film -- Iceland Today -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography of Readings and Works Cited -- Part II Art: Preservation, Interior Design, and Adaptation -- Chapter 6 Morris and Architecture -- Literature Review -- Notes -- Chapter 7 William Morris and Stained Glass -- Morris's Role in the Manufacture of Windows -- Art, Decoration and Medievalism: The Status of the Medium -- All Saints Selsley -- All Saints Middleton Cheney -- St. John, Torquay -- The Later Years -- Notes -- List of Works Cited -- Chapter 8 William Morris and Interior Design -- Design in Britain 1850 -- William Morris and Design -- Morris, Marshall, Faulkner &amp -- Co. (1861-1875) -- Morris &amp -- Co. (1875-1940) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 9 William Morris and the Culture Industry: Appropriation, Art, Critique -- Introduction -- 1 Gardens -- 2 The Red House -- 3 The William Morris Gallery -- 4 Kelmscott House -- 5 Kelmscott Manor -- 6 Morris &amp -- Co. -- 7 The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings -- 8 The Bauhaus -- 9 William Morris and the Atom -- 10 Morris Kitsch -- 11 Jewel Point -- 12 Big Red Propeller -- 13 Announcer -- 14 We sit starving amidst our gold -- 15 Love is Enough: William Morris &amp -- Andy Warhol -- 16 The World Stage: Jamaica -- 17 'I do not want art for a few any more than I want education for a few or freedom for a few' -- References and Further Reading -- Part III Literature: Poetry, Art, Translation, and Fantasy -- Chapter 10 A Question of Ornament: Poetry and the (Lesser) Arts -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Making Pictures: Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and Its Reception -- Notes -- References and Further Reading
• Chapter 12 William Morris and the Classical Tradition -- Formation -- Translations -- Adaptations -- Polemics -- Calligraphy: Horace and Virgil -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 13 A Very Animated Conversation on Icelandic Matters: The Saga Translations of William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Rewilding Morris: Wilderness and the Wild in the Last Romances -- Wild Writing -- Wild Places -- Wild Selves -- Wild Societies -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Windy, Tangible, Resonant Worlds: The Nonhuman Fantasy of William Morris -- Hope, But Not For Us -- Disconnections -- Subcreation and Secondary Worlds -- Battle of the Books -- After Morris -- Conclusion: The Case for Anemia -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Part IV Literature and Socialism -- Chapter 16 William Morris and British Politics: From the Liberal Party to the Socialist League -- William Morris and the Liberal Party 1876-1883 -- The Shift to Socialism -- Morris's Engagement with Politics as a Socialist -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 News from Nowhere in the Museum of Literary Interpretations -- Objects -- Role of William Guest -- Genre -- Characters -- Gothic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 William Morris and THE Literature and Socialism of the Commonweal -- The Pilgrims of Hope -- A Dream of John Ball -- News from Nowhere -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited: -- Further Reading: -- Chapter 19 Desire and Necessity: William Morris and Nature -- Introduction -- Development of Morris's 'Green' Thought -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Morris and Marxist Theory -- I. Marx, Morris and the Socialist Movement in Fin-de-Siècle Britain -- II. 'Socialism from the Root Up'
• III. Romanticism and Marxism: Morris's and Marx's Elective Affinities -- IV. Alienation, Production and Sensuous Emancipation -- V. Revolution, Dual Power and the Transition beyond Capitalism -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Part V Books: Collecting and Design -- Chapter 21 William Morris's Book Collecting -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 22 William Morris and The Kelmscott Press: Towards an Aesthetics of Environment -- Notes -- References and Further Reading: William Morris and the Kelmscott Press -- Index of Proper Nouns -- Index of Places -- Index of Selected Titles of Creative Works