03859nam 22006255 450 991025476300332120200630063830.03-319-59602-010.1007/978-3-319-59602-0(CKB)4100000001382251(DE-He213)978-3-319-59602-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5183860(EXLCZ)99410000000138225120171205d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWilliam Morris’s Utopianism Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration /by Owen Holland1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XI, 337 p. 5 illus.) Palgrave Studies in Utopianism3-319-59601-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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’s and Abensour’s view of its anti-political character.Palgrave Studies in UtopianismGreat Britain—HistoryEurope—History—1492-Civilization—HistoryIntellectual life—HistoryWorld politicsHistory of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020History of Modern Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000Intellectual Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/729000Political Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080Great Britain—History.Europe—History—1492-.Civilization—History.Intellectual life—History.World politics.History of Britain and Ireland.History of Modern Europe.Cultural History.Intellectual Studies.Political History.941Holland Owenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut969693BOOK9910254763003321William Morris’s Utopianism2203643UNINA