"In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This accessible volume gathers influential, cross-disciplinary voices who have participated in his recent critical, political, and curatorial revival"--

Part I. Senses of Place: Introduction Marcus Waithe; 1. Oxford Tony Pinkney; 2. Red House Tessa Wild; 3. The Thames Basin Clive Wilmer; Part II. Authorship: 5. Experimental medievalism: The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems (1858) Martin Dubois; 6. Troubling the heroic ideal: Morris's midlife poetry Florence Boos; 7. Skaldic Morris: Translations from Old Norse Heather O'Donoghue; 8. '[T]he whole man': Morris's public lectures Simon Grimble; 9. Northern epic: Sigurd the Volsung (1876) Herbert Tucker; 10. Utopian fiction: News from Nowhere (1890; 1891) Matthew Beaumont; 11. Morris's prose romances and the origins of fantasy Anna Vaninskaya; Part III. The Practical Arts: 12. Morris & Company: The poet as decorator Elizabeth Helsinger; 13. Pattern: Textiles and wallpaper Caroline Arscott; 14. Technologies of the book: Revisiting the Kelmscott Press Marcus Waithe; Part IV. Movements and Causes: 15. Practical socialism: Newspaper and propaganda work Ingrid Hanson; 16. Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement Mary Greensted; 17. Female fellowship: Morris, feminism and the New Woman Zoë Thomas; 18. Landscape and environment Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; Part V. Influences and Legacies: 19. Morris and John Ruskin Stuart Eagles; 20. Morris and Marxism Ruth Levitas; 21. William Morris's 'Medieval Modern' afterlives Michael T. Saler; 22. Morris in the twenty-first century Sara Atwood.