Research Catalog

Title

News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance / by William Morris ; edited by Krishan Kumar.

Author

Morris, William, 1834-1896

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kumar, Krishan.
• Kumar, Krishan, 1942-

Description

xxxii, 229 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"News from Nowhere (1890) is the most famous work of one of the greatest British writers and thinkers, William Morris. It is a utopian picture of a future communist society, drawing on the work of Ruskin and Marx and written in response to what Morris saw as soulless and mechanical visions of socialism. In this work of his last years, Morris distilled many of his leading ideas on politics, art and society, imagining a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a workers' revolution and nature and society have become beautiful habitations for humanity. In an era that has seen the collapse of state socialism, Morris's damning critique of this conception, and his positing of a powerful alternative, are compelling reasons for paying attention to this classic of British socialism."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Uniform Title

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Alternative Title

• Epoch of rest.
• News from nowhere
• Epoch of rest

Subject

• Morris, William, (1834-1896) > Critique et interprétation
• Utopias

Genre/Form

Utopian fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxxi) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0521420075
• 0521422337 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94021351^

OCLC

• 30593709
• SCSB-10369793

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library