William Morris : Centenary Essays Book

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Introduction:     Morris in 1996

Peter Faulkner and Peter Preston

Part I:               Morris and the Environment

1        An Aesthetic Ecocommunist: Morris the Red and Morris the Green

Florence S. Boos

Part II:              Morris and Literature

2        Shadow of Turning in The Earthly Paradise

William Blissett

3        Sigurd the Volsung: Heroic Poetry in an Unheroic Age

Simon Dentith

4        The Troy Connection: Myth and History in Sigurd the Volsung

Amanda Hodgson

5        Beatrice and Ellen: Ideal Guides from Hell to Paradise

Adriana Corrado

6        William Morris and the Bear: Theme, Magic and Totem in the Romances

Norman Talbot

7        News from Nowhere and The Spoils of Poynton: Interiors and Exteriors

Norman Kelvin

Part III:            Morris, the Arts and Crafts and the New World

8        Sacred and Profane Love: The Oxford Union Murals and the Holy Grail Tapestries

Christine Poulson

9        ‘The Beautiful Book That Was’: William Morris and the Gift of A Book of Verse

Rosie Miles

10    William Morris in New England: Architecture and Design in Late Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island

Pedro Beade

11    William Morris and Nineteenth-Century Boston

Lindsay Leard-Coolidge

12    ‘Every Artist would be a Workman, and Every Workman an Artist’: Morrisian and Arts and Crafts Ideas and Ideals at the Ontario Educational Association 1900-1920

E. Lisa Panayotidis-Stortz

13    The Dilemma of Place: Arts and Crafts Architecture in the Antipodes

Ian J. Lochhead

Part IV:            Morris, Gender and Politics

14    William Morris and Victorian Manliness

Jan Marsh

15    Beyond the Law of the Father: The ‘New Woman’ in News from Nowhere

Ady Mineo

16    Lady Griselda’s Dream: May Morris’s Forgotten Play

Janis Londraville

17    Morris, Anit-Statism and Anarchy

Ruth Kinna

18    E. P. Thompson and William Morris

David Goodway

Notes to Chapters

Paper and Lectures delivered at the William Morris Centenary Conference

Contributors

Postscript: The Work of the William Morris Society

Index