Owen Holland

William Morris¿s Utopianism

Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration

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Produktbeschreibung

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 siècle 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'sand Abensour's view of its anti-political character.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-86661-1
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9783319866611
• ISBN-10: 3319866613
• Artikelnr.: 55129493

Autorenporträt

Owen Holland is Career Development Fellow in Victorian and Modern Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, UK. He is also editor of The Journal of William Morris Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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.