William Morris & News from nowhere : a vision for our time

Author(s)

• Coleman, Stephen
• O'Sullivan, Paddy

Bibliographic Information

William Morris & News from nowhere : a vision for our time

edited by Stephen Coleman and Paddy O'Sullivan

Green, 1990

Note

Includes bibliography

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book marks the centenary of the publication of William Morris most celebrated work, the utopian novel News from Nowhere. Originally received as backward-looking and hopelessly romantic, News from Nowhere was in reality ahead of its time, articulating a coherent vision of how we live and how we might live that has much in common with the views of idealists and green thinkers of the present day. William Morris &?News from Nowhere:?a Vision for Our Time is a re-evaluation of Morriss ideas on such diverse subjects as love, work, revolution, architecture, economics and ecology. In the light of the breakdown of the old order in Eastern Europe and the crisis of capitalism in the West, together with the greening of societies throughout Europe and elsewhere, Morris has much to contribute to the search for new ways of thinking and action, for new social and political structures, and for new attitudes to Nature and ourselves. The chapters have been contributed by Christopher Hampton, John Crump, Jan Marsh, Ray Watkinson, Colin Ward, Mark Pearson, Adam Buick, Stephen Coleman and Paddy OSullivan.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - Utopia today, S.Coleman
• biographical essay - who was William Morris?, P.O'Sullivan
• a synopsis of News from Nowhere, C.Slapper
• the feast's beginning - Nowhere and the Utopian tradition, C.Hampton
• how the change came - revolution in Nowhere, J.Crump
• how things are managed - human nature in Nowhere, S.Coleman
• concerning love - News from Nowhere & Gender, J.Marsh
• the obstinate refusers - work in News from Nowhere, R.Watkinson
• an old house amongst new folk - William Morris as designer, C.Ward
• the Hammersmith guesthouse again - the Architecture of Nowhere, M.Pearson
• a market by the way - economics of Nowhere, A.Buick
• the journey's end - William Morris, news from nowhere and ecology, P.O'Sullivan.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA11218598
• ISBN:
  • 1870098374
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bideford
• Pages/Volumes: 213 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR5084
  • DC20 : 828.809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Morris, William, 1834-1896 -- Political and social views
  • LCSH : Morris, William, 1834-1896. News from nowhere
  • LCSH : Utopias -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Utopias -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Utopias in literature
  • BLSH : Morris, William, 1834-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • PRECIS : English literature. Morris, William, 1834-1896