Journal of William Morris Studies - Summer 2012

  1. The Idler
    The Idler
    Volume XIX No.4. Summer 2012

    The Summer 2012 number of the Journal (Volume XIX, No. 4) is now available, and contains details of a previously unpublished letter by William Morris. The contents are:
    Articles

    • Editorial, Patrick O’Sullivan
    • Obituary: Peter Preston Peter Faulkner
    • A William Morris Letter, Peter Faulkner
    • Morris and Devon Great Consols, Florence S. Boos & Patrick O’Sullivan
    • Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, Peter Faulkner
    • ‘And my deeds shall be remembered, and my name that once was nought’: Regin’s Role in Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, Kathleen Ullal
    • Morris’s Late Style and the Irreconcilabilities of Desire, Ingrid Hanson

    There are also reviews of

    • William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World, edited by Robert Boenig (Phillippa Bennett)
    • Joseph Phelan, The Music of Verse. Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Peter Faulkner)
    • Martin Crick, The History of the William Morris Society (Martin Stott)
    • Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite. Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (Peter Faulkner)
    • Susie Harries, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (John Purkis)
    • Paul Ward, Red Flag and Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881-1924 (Gabriel Schenk)
    • James C. Whorton, The Arsenic Century (Mike Foulkes & Patrick O’Sullivan)

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    Index to Past Issues

    The Journal of William Morris Studies 1961-2008 is now available online. For indexes by date, author, title and subject, see the journal page from the William Morris Society in the United States website.