Paradise Dislocated Morris, Politics, Art |
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| Author:
| Skoblow, Jeffrey |
| Series title: | Victorian Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-1439-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1993 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $84.00 |
Book Description:
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Offers a radical rereading of William Morris's neglected masterpiece, The Earthly Paradise. While most critics have seen this poem as the antithesis of the radical socialist politics that Morris embraced later in his career, or, at best, as an awkward prelude to that later development, Jeffrey Skoblow proposes that The Earthly Paradise is in fact central to Morris's political vision.
Offers a radical rereading of William Morris's neglected masterpiece, The Earthly Paradise. While most critics have seen this poem as the antithesis of the radical socialist politics that Morris embraced later in his career, or, at best, as an awkward prelude to that later development, Jeffrey Skoblow proposes that The Earthly Paradise is in fact central to Morris's political vision.