William Morris's Utopia of Strangers : Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality.

While focussing on William Morris's conception of the ideal society arising from complex Victorian notions of hospitality, and including a detailed analysis of Morris's various projects, this volume surveys a range of artistic and intellectual contexts, from early Victorian paternalism and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waithe, Marcus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2006.
Series:English Association studies.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Arts, English > 19th century.
Hospitality > Philosophy.
Medievalism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Morris, William, 1834-1896 > Criticism and interpretation.
Morris, William, 1834-1896 > Philosophy.
Morris, William, 1834-1896 > Political and social views.
Utopian socialism.
Arts anglais > 19e siècle.
Hospitalité > Philosophie.
Médiévisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Socialisme utopique.
Medievalism.
Arts, English.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Wanderers Entertained: Idealized Hospitality in the Literature of Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
  • 2. Before 'the days when hospitality had to be bought and sold': Idealized Hospitality and Aesthetic Separatism in Morris's Work of the 1860s and 1870s
  • 3. Entertaining the Past: Problems in Tourism, Translation and Preservation
  • 4. Utopian Hospitality: The Teutonic 'House Community' and the Hammersmith Guest House
  • 5. Legacies
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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