@article{807396,
      recid = {807396},
      author = {Holland, Owen},
      title = {William Morris's utopianism : propaganda, politics and  prefiguration /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s  utopianism as a strategic extension of his political  writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism  and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained  counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the  life-world of the fin de siècle socialist movement, as well  as the dominant literary cultures of his day. Owen Holland  demonstrates this by placing Morris in conversation with  writers of first-wave feminism, nineteenth-century  pastoralists, as well as the romance revivalists and  imperialists of the 1880s. In doing so, he revises E.P.  Thompson’s and Miguel Abensour’s argument that Morris’s  utopian writing should be conceived as anti-political and  heuristic, concerned with the pedagogic education of  desire, rather than with the more mundane work of  propaganda. He shows how Morris’s utopianism emerged  against the grain of the now-here, embroiled in  instrumental, propagandistic polemic, complicating  Thompson’s and Abensour’s view of its anti-political  character.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/807396},
}