Wonderlands: The Last Romances of William Morris

by Phillippa Bennett

Overview

This book provides a full-length critical study of William Morris's late works and demonstrates their essential role in promoting the continuing importance of Morris's ideas. It provides a new way of understanding their relevance to his writings on art and architecture, nature and the environment, and politics and Socialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034309301
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	08/11/2015
Series:	Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century , #4
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phillippa Bennett is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of William Morris Studies and has served as both Secretary and Vice President of the William Morris Society in the UK. She co-edited William Morris in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2010) and has published a number of book chapters and articles on Morris’s last romances and their relationship to his aesthetic and political ideals.

Table of Contents

Contents: The Reclamation of Wonder – The Embodiment of Wonder – The Topography of Wonder – The Architecture of Wonder – The Politics of Wonder – The Presentation of Wonder.

Editorial Reviews

«Bennett’s book heightens our understanding of Morris’s exceptional accomplishments, and links many of them – the body, ecology, the relation between social inequality and human ills – to issues that plague us still.»
(Susan Jaret McKinstry, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 25/2016)

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