Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
News from Nowhere, Or, An Epoch of Rest
Author: William MorrisPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192801777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Drawing on the work of Ruskin and Marx, this novel is a statement of the author's egalitarian convictions as well as a contribution to the utopian tradition. The text is based on that of 1891, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris to the first edition.
News from Nowhere
Author: William MorrisPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486143198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
One of the most literary of utopian fantasies, this 1890 novel distills the author's attitudes toward politics, art, and society. A resonant critique of state socialism, it offers remarkably modern proposals for an alternative, idyllic society.
Author: William MorrisNews from Nowhere
Author: William MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.
Author: Milton Howard Baldwin
Author: William Morris
Author: William MorrisNews from Nowhere
Author: William MorrisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530871988
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The book explores a number of aspects of this society, including its organisation and the relationships which it engenders between people. Morris cleverly fuses Marxism and the romance tradition when he presents himself as an enchanted figure in a time and place different from Victorian England. As Morris, the romance character, quests for love and fellowship-and through them for a reborn self-he encounters romance archetypes in Marxist guises. Old Hammond is both the communist educator who teaches Morris the new world and the wise old man of romance. Dick and Clara are good comrades and the married lovers who aid Morris in his wanderings. The journey on the Thames is both a voyage through society transformed by revolution and a quest for happiness. The goal of the quest, met and found though only transiently, is Ellen, the symbol of the reborn age and the bride the alien cannot win. Ellen herself is a multidimensional figure; a working class woman emancipated under socialism, she is also a benign nature spirit as well as the soul in the form of a woman.[1] The book offers Morris' answers to a number of frequent objections to socialism, and underlines his belief that socialism will entail not only the abolishment of private property but also of the divisions between art, life, and work.
Author: Edward Jay Epstein