William Morris and the idea of community
Subtitle: romance, history and propaganda, 1880-1914
By: Anna Vaninskaya
Series: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780748641499
Subjects: Communities in literature; English literature; History and criticism; Modern Civilization; Civilization, Modern, in literature
Description: This study focuses on the great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries. It looks at the ways in which these Victorians and Edwardians talked about 'community' and 'modernity', and the uses they had for these notions. It also examines how different discourses contributed to their formation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-220) and index.