Table of Contents

Introduction; I. ROMANCE; 1. The Romance Revival; 2. The Paradoxes of Mr Morris; II. HISTORY; 3. The Dark Ages; 4. The Middle Ages; III. PROPAGANDA; 5. Socialist Hybrids; 6. Education and Association; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Anna Vaninskaya spent equal portions of her life in Russia, America, and Britain. She received her doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, worked as a research fellow at King's College, Cambridge and with the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, and is now a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include nineteenth-century socialism, popular reading, and historical cultures, the history of education and the work of writers such as Morris, Wells, Chesterton, Orwell, and Tolkien.

Reviews

Literature, history and politics -- William Morris's task of building socialism in a capitalist world required action on all three fronts. Anna Vaninskaya's authoritative, lucid and yet passionate book provides a confident guide to all three fronts and to the wider world of Victorian understandings of community and civilization. -- Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Cambridge Literature, history and politics -- William Morris's task of building socialism in a capitalist world required action on all three fronts. Anna Vaninskaya's authoritative, lucid and yet passionate book provides a confident guide to all three fronts and to the wider world of Victorian understandings of community and civilization.