Revolutions
How I Became A Socialist
William Morris, Owen Hatherley
List price £11.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781788736916
- Published:
- 24 Nov 2020
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 224 pages - 198 x 129 x 14mm
- Availability:
- Available
- Series:
- Revolutions
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William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly 50 years, shows Morris as one of the most original and inspiring socialist intellectuals of his generation. Covering essays and lectures ranging through the relation between art and politics, to his visions for a socialist society and his strident anti-imperialism, this is an essential volume which shows Morris as the engaged and committed socialist that he was.
"In essays and lectures, William Morris examines the relation between art and politics, the possibilities for a socialist society, and the crimes of empire, among other subjects. This essential anthology demonstrates Morris's profound commitment to nineteenth-century socialism"--
William Morris (1834 - 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain. Owen Holland is a Teaching Fellow at UCL in Nineteenth-century Literature. He is the author of William Morris's Utopianism.