News from Nowhere

A Victorian Utopian Dream of Socialist Fellowship, Craft, and a Future England Reborn

von William Morris

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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First published in 1890, News from Nowhere imagines William Guest awakening in a future England transformed by a peaceful communist revolution. Money, prisons, parliamentary bureaucracy, and industrial ugliness have vanished; labor has become voluntary, pleasurable, and artistically meaningful. Morris shapes this vision as pastoral romance, dream narrative, and political dialogue, countering the mechanized collectivism of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward with a medievally inflected, ecological socialism rooted in fellowship, beauty, and craft. Morris was uniquely equipped to write such a work. A major Victorian poet, designer, translator, printer, and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he understood aesthetic production as a social question. His activism in the Democratic Federation and Socialist League, alongside his hatred of exploitative factory labor and cultural impoverishment, informs the novel's insistence that political emancipation must also renew everyday life, architecture, landscape, and human desire. Readers interested in utopian fiction, socialist thought, Victorian literature, or environmental humanities will find News from Nowhere indispensable. It is not a blueprint but a provocation: a sensuous argument that justice requires transformed habits of work, leisure, art, and affection. Its optimism remains challenging precisely because Morris asks us to imagine freedom not as abundance alone, but as shared beauty.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9788028337445
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.11.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sharp Ink