Journal of William Morris Studies - Summer 2013

  1. The Idler
    The Idler
    Volume XX No.2. Summer 2013

    The Summer 2013 issue of the Journal (Vol. XX No. 2), the Special Issue in honour of Peter Faulkner, is now available. Contents are:

    • Editorial – Peter Faulkner: a critical appreciation, Patrick O’Sullivan
    • Books in Bottles? William Morris and the demise of printing, Jan Marsh
    • William Morris as playwright, Jo George
    • ‘News from Nowhere in recent criticism’ revisited, Tony Pinkney
    • The Dream, Image, Vision, Wizardry, and Erotic in Morris’s work, Norman Kelvin
    • Educating for Utopia: William Morris on Useful Learning versus ‘Useless Toil’, Phillippa Bennett
    • Morris, George Borrow and Edward Thomas: a green road opening, John Purkis
    • Charles Winston and the development of Conservative Restoration, Jim Cheshire

    There are also reviews (edited by Peter Faulkner) of:

    • Alex Jones, William Morris in Iceland, (Gary Aho)
    • Robert L. M. Coupe, Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English, (Rosie Miles)
    • Frank McLynn, The Road Not Taken. How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, (Peter Faulkner)
    • J. B. Bullen, Rossetti: Painter and Poet, (Rosie Miles)
    • Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld & Alison Smith, Pre-Raphaelites. Victorian Avant-Garde. (Peter Faulkner)
    • Paola Spinozza & Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ: Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics, (Dinah Roe)
    • William Waters, Angels and Icons Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870, (Jim Cheshire)
    • J. H. Bowman, ed, A critical edition of the private diaries of Robert Proctor: the life of a librarian at the British Museum, (John Purkis)

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