The first, from Hammersmith to Bloomsbury, takes place so that he can meet a historian named Hammond. We follow Guest as he embarks on two linked journeys. The novel begins with the narrator, the aptly named William Guest, waking from a fitful sleep to find that he has been thrown forward in time to the twenty-second century.
In his 1890 utopian novel News From Nowhere, Morris imagined a world after the revolution. Prompted by his growing opposition to British imperialism, Morris embarked in the late 1870s on a journey of Marxist self-education and political organising that would last the rest of his life.
He was also a dedicated revolutionary socialist and an incisive critic of late-Victorian capitalism. William Morris is probably best known as a poet, artist, and designer, and as one of the founders of the Arts and Craft movement. This post is intended as a follow-on to Tom’s-in it, I turn to a utopian novel that did not appear in his crowd-sourced reading list, but which I’ve been thinking about a lot recently and which offers a compelling vision of the place of education in a more equitable world. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Tom White really appreciated last week’s post, ‘Reading for a future’, and its reflections on critiquing and organising against what’s happening now and, at the same time, finding the time and energy to imagine radically different futures. The text is based on that of 1891, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris to the first edition.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Morris's rejection of state socialism and his ambition to transform the relationship between humankind and the natural world, give News from Nowhere a particular resonance for modern readers. Drawing on the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morris's book is not only an evocative statement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive contribution to the utopian tradition.
Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'Chapters from a Utopian Romance' recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. 'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.' Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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