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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    03 May 2024
    23 May 2024
    ISBN:
    9781108939942
    9781108832175
    9781108940634
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939942
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.7kg, 358 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.57kg, 358 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Art: General Interest, Art, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Art: General Interest, Art, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent critical, political, and curatorial revival of his work, with essays exploring the contemporary resonance of his exceptional legacy. As a critic of capitalism, his thinking has thrived in these years of financial crisis; as a theorist of work and craftsmanship, his legacy interacts with a more recent ethics of making that questions the values of 'off-shored' production; and as a protector of landscape and buildings Morris's concern with what is precious strikes a chord in our age of environmental crisis. At the same time, a careful and scholarly approach observes the particularity of Morris's context, in a way that confounds the 'false friends' of hasty historical reception and reveals unexpected connections.

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    ‘[A] comprehensive collection of essays that explores the full extent of Morris’s multiplicity.’

    Dinah Birch Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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