The Journal of William Morris Studies News

Volume XIX No. 3, Winter 2011

Contents of this issue are:

  • ‘The author of the Earthly Paradise by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’. A newly-discovered drawing of William Morris. Jan Marsh
  • The Journal of the William Morris Society, Martin Crick
  • ‘Morris the red, Morris the Green’ – a partial review, Patrick O’Sullivan
  • Morris after Marcuse: Art, beauty, and the aestheticist tradition of ecosocialism, Bradley MacDonald
  • The dialectic of nature in Nowhere, Tony Pinkney
  • Green cosmopolitanism in Morris’s News from Nowhere, Eddy Kent
  • A darker shade of green: William Morris, posthumanism, and ecotastrophe, Jed Mayer
  • ¡Homenaje a Aragón! News from Nowhere, collectivisation and the sustainable future, Patrick O’Sullivan
  • William Morris: An Annotated Bibliography 2008-2009, David and Sheila Latham

There are also reviews (edited by Peter Faulkner) of

  • Florence S. Boos, Socialist Aesthetics and The Shadows of Amiens (John Purkis)
  • Lavinia Greenlaw, ed, Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland (John Purkis)
  • Anna Vaninskaya, William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 (Ruth Kinna)
  • Yisrael Levin, ed, A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word (Richard Frith)
  • Karen Livingstone, The Bookplates and Badges of C.F.A. Voysey, Architect and Designer of the Arts and Crafts Movement (John Purkis)
  • Linda Parry & David Cathers, Arts and Crafts Rugs for Craftsman Interiors (Peter Faulkner)
  • Christopher Frayling, On Craftsmanship: towards a new Bauhaus (Jim Cheshire)
  • Tony Pinkney, William Morris: The Blog. Digital Reflections 2007-2011 (Peter Faulkner)
  • Paul Farley & Michael Symmonds Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys into England’s true wilderness
  • Owen Hatherley, A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain (Martin Stott)

 

VOLUME XIX NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2011

  • Editorial - Still playing ‘the Great Money Trick’ Patrick O’Sullivan
  • La Belle Iseult. Jan Marsh
  • The Living Past of William Morris’s Late Romances. Gabriel Schenk
  • Between Ouvriérisme and Élitism: the dualism of William Morris. Antoine Capet
  • ‘The other Miss Faulkner’: Lucy Orrinsmith and the ‘Art at Home Series’ Emma Ferry

Reviews. Edited by Peter Faulkner

  • Phillippa Bennett & Rosie Miles, eds, William Morris in the Twenty-First Century (John Purkis)
  • William E. Fredeman et al., eds, The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Last Decade II, Vol. IX, 1879-1882, Kelmscott to Birchington (Peter Faulkner)
  • Regina Gagnier, Individualism, Decadence and Globalisation (Ruth Kinna)
  • Mervyn Miller, English Garden Cities: an introduction (Martin Stott)
  • Letitia Higgins, Royal School of Needlework: Handbook of Embroidery (Linda Parry)
  • Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, Trevor Keeble & Brenda Martin, eds, Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (Diana Andrews)
  • Matthew Crawford, The Case for Working with your Hands or Why Office Work is Bad for us and Fixing Things Feels Good (Jim Cheshire)
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