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William Morris's utopianism = propaganda, politics and prefiguration /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	William Morris's utopianism/ by Owen Holland.
Reminder of title:	propaganda, politics and prefiguration /
Author:	Holland, Owen.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 337 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Utopias in literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59602-0
ISBN:	9783319596020

William Morris's utopianism = propaganda, politics and prefiguration /
Holland, Owen.

William Morris's utopianismpropaganda, politics and prefiguration /[electronic resource] :by Owen Holland. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xi, 337 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in utopianism. - Palgrave studies in utopianism..

PART I -- ONE: Introduction: No-where and now-here -- TWO: Twentieth-century critical readings of Morris's utopianism -- PART II -- THREE: At the cross-roads of socialism and first-wave feminism -- FOUR: The pastoral structure of feeling in Morris's utopianism -- FIVE: Imperialism, colonialism and internationalism -- SIX: Organic and mechanical -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.

This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris's utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris's utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the life-world of the fin de siecle socialist movement, as well as the dominant literary cultures of his day. Owen Holland demonstrates this by placing Morris in conversation with writers of first-wave feminism, nineteenth-century pastoralists, as well as the romance revivalists and imperialists of the 1880s. In doing so, he revises E.P. Thompson's and Miguel Abensour's argument that Morris's utopian writing should be conceived as anti-political and heuristic, concerned with the pedagogic education of desire, rather than with the more mundane work of propaganda. He shows how Morris's utopianism emerged against the grain of the now-here, embroiled in instrumental, propagandistic polemic, complicating Thompson's and Abensour's view of its anti-political character.

ISBN: 9783319596020

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-59602-0doiSubjects--Personal Names:

1197969
Morris, William,
1834-1896--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

665565
Utopias in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR5084 / .H65 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 821.809

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