Writing on the Image is a collection of essays that showcases the varied canon of Morris.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-243) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.8
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442685130 9780802092472
- LCCN
- PR5084
- LCCN Item number
- W74 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 254 p.,)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00222085 (OCoLC)753354310 (CaOOCEL)424355
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 10
- 1 Writing on the Image: How We Write and How We Might Write 16
- 2 (Dis)continuities: Arthur’s Tomb, Modern Painters, and Morris’s Early Wallpaper Designs 30
- 3 William Morris, Shaper of Tales: Creating a Hero’s Story in ‘Sir Peter Harpdon’s End’ 44
- 4 Medea and Circe as ‘Wise’ Women in the Poetry of William Morris and Augusta Webster 56
- 5 Morris and the Muse: Gender and Aestheticism in William Morris’s ‘Pymgalion and the Image’ 74
- 6 The River at the Heart of Morris’s Ecological Thought 86
- 7 News from Nowhere as Autoethnography: A Future History of ‘Home Colonization’ 114
- 8 Clothes from Nowhere: Costume as Social Symbol in the Work of William Morris 136
- 9 To Live in the Present: News from Nowhere and the Representation of the Present in Late Victorian Utopian Fiction 148
- 10 ‘Paradyse Erthly’: John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision 166
- 11 ‘To Frame a Desire’: Morris’s Ideology of Work and Play 184
- 12 History Becomes Geography: Tracing Morris’s Later Thought 202
- 13 Socialist Fellowship and the Woman Question 212
- 14 The Reception of Willam Morris’s Beowulf 226
- 15 Morris’s Compromises: On Victorian Editorial Theory and the Kelmscott Chaucer 238
- 16 ‘The Dream of William Morris’: Marya Zaturenska’s Lost Essay 250
- Bibliography 258
- Contributors 274
- Index 278
- A 278
- B 278
- C 279
- D 279
- E 279
- F 279
- G 280
- H 280
- I 280
- J 280
- K 280
- L 280
- M 281
- N 281
- O 281
- P 282
- Q 282
- R 282
- S 282
- T 282
- U 283
- W 283
- Y 283
- Z 283
- Illustrations 98
