Paradise Dislocated: Morris, Politics, Art

by Jeffrey Skoblow

Book Overview

Paradise Dislocated offers a radical rereading of William Morris's neglected masterpiece, The Earthly Paradise. While most critics have seen this poem as the antithesis of the radical socialist politics that Morris embraced later in his career, or, at best, as an awkward prelude to that later development, Jeffrey Skoblow proposes that The Earthly Paradise is in fact central to Morris's political vision-indeed, it is the most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392944X
• ISBN13: 9780813929446
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher