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William Morris' Position between Art and Politics.
This volume re-evaluates the position of William Morris regarding contemporary perspectives on his artistic and political endeavours. Special emphasis is placed on the concepts and territories that lie in-between, both literally and metaphorically. This "in-between-ess" is the most remarka...
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Objectives and Methodological Approaches; The Morrisean Universe; The interrelation between art, nature, and politics; Critical Assessment of Studies Devoted to William Morris; Biographical Perspectives; Morris in the context of utopian studies; Approaches Towards Morris' art and politics; Part One; Chapter One; Specifications of the Victorian Age; William Morris and the Victorian age; William Morris' Response to Victorian Art Theories and Aesthetic Systems; William Morris and Victorian Art Movements; Victorian medievalism; Pre-Raphaelitism.
- William Morris' Approach to the Aesthetic MovementChapter Two; William Morris' Exposure to Victorian Political Philosophies and Ideologies; Political Theory and Ideological Frameworks; Liberalism and Conservatism; Racism and racialism in the context of British supremacy; British Socialism; Pre- and proto-socialist movements; Trade Unionism, Chartism, Owenism, and Christian Socialism; The Fabian Society; Early Marxist movements in Great Britain; Table 2.1. Socialist movements in the United Kingdom (ca. 1870-1900); Morris' Definition(s) of Politics.
- The Social and Political Implications of Morris' approach to Art in the Pre-socialist PhaseThe Gothic Revival as the point of convergence; The Firm, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; Part Two; Chapter Three; The Art/Politics Issue in the Pre-socialist Morris; Two Models of Morris' Transition from Art to Politics; The Evolutionary Model; "The Shadows of Amiens" (1856); The implications of social criticism; Breaking point; The revolutionary model; Chapter Four; Introductory Remarks; Critical Evaluation of Morris' Socialism.
- Morris's Lectures on Art from the Socialist PeriodMorris' socialist awareness from a linguistic perspective; Chapter Five; News from Nowhere as a Transdiscursive Narrative; The Narrative Structure in the Context of Morris' Views on Art and Politics; The narrative voice as purposeful replication; Narrative frame(s): main storyline vs. added discourse; Conceptual and/or Generic Classification of News from Nowhere; News from Nowhere as a romance; Arcadian elements in News from Nowhere; News from Nowhere: a Political Utopia without Politics; News from Nowhere and the Earthly Paradise concept.
- News from Nowhere as an advanced socialist utopia(Anti- )Ideology: the Narrative as a Circumvention; The narrative's reflections on language and socialist consciousness; News from Nowhere as a Transdiscursive Exposition of the Morrisean Universe; Conclusion; The process of (creative) production; Points of Convergence (chapters three and four); Conceptions of Time (chapters four and five); Linguistic Aspects (chapters three, four, and five); Epilogue; Works Cited; Index of Names.