News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance

Morris, William

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“…From Faulkner's standpoint, News from Nowhere presents England "as a place rather than a nation-state" (Faulkner 1992:22). By extending the franchise to the whole people in his utopian land (Morris 2003:65), Morris delivers a blow on the English parliamentary tradition. He abolishes the Houses of Parliament as a foothold of representative democracy by introducing people's direct rule.…”

Section: The Nation and Landscape In Morris's News From Nowhere (1891)mentioning

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Debating National Identity in Utopian Fiction (Morris, Benson, Read)

Shadurski¹

2011

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Abstract. This paper explores the mechanism of interaction between major themes and concerns which featured in discussions of national identity, and their interpretation in the utopian novels of William Morris, Robert Hugh Benson, and Herbert Read. Arguing that News from Nowhere, The Dawn of All, and The Green Child (and, by extension, utopian fiction as a genre) contain mediated responses to current debates about the nation, the paper analyses the historical context of the timeframe between 1891 and 1935, and the methodological dichotomy of utopia and ideology which it attempts to overcome. The next three sections examine how organization of time lends itself to the interpretation of the utopian novels vis-à-vis major issues and stresses of debates surrounding national identity. It is concluded that utopian fiction as a conventional mouthpiece of radical transformations is capable of giving voice to the mutable discourse of a dominant ideology and debating the national agenda with nearly equal force.

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Debating National Identity in Utopian Fiction (Morris, Benson, Read)

Shadurski¹

2011

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“…As the literary scholar Robert Elliott noted (1960,1970 in two remarkable studies of utopian urges-and often dystopian outcomes-a seeking after the ideal was conventionally justified in prose with a concerted savaging of the real world. Utopianism was bonded to satire, and it is still (Goin and Starrs 2005).…”

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Utopia, Dystopia, and Sublime Apocalypse in Montana's Church Universal and Triumphant

Starrs

Wright

2005

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. The search for a perfected place on earth is rarely easy or forgiving. Utopias and dystopias demonstrate the practical frailties of attempts to build better human associations, whether as literary efforts or in actual, on‐the‐ground experiments. With a proprietary interest in evaluating the dimensions of place making, geographers can lay claim to be frontline critics of efforts that attempt to craft a better world. The catalog of personality cultists, charismatically murderous leaders, and apocalyptic mass death is long. The Church Universal and Triumphant, currently of Paradise Valley, Montana, is examined as the home for twenty‐five years of an ongoing effort to “improve” lives. If its dilemmas and apparent failures are in keeping with the history of past utopian ventures, geographical lessons remain to be learned about the costs of planning for perfection.

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“…The nineteenth-century writer William Morris and the twentieth-century historian E. P. Thompson (who wrote a study about Morris), stressed the importance of this dimension of utopian thought by suggesting that utopias are really about educating desire. 8 More's own Utopia, like most male-authored, putatively secular utopias, obscures this by focusing on social and political structures. And although More deals explicitly with religious institutions and rituals, when he insists that people will not long for anything superfluous when they have all that they need, he represses the question of how desire shapes religious faith and belief.…”

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Utopia of Desire: The Real and Ideal in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Furey¹

2006

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance

Cited by 35 publications

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Debating National Identity in Utopian Fiction (Morris, Benson, Read)

Debating National Identity in Utopian Fiction (Morris, Benson, Read)

Utopia, Dystopia, and Sublime Apocalypse in Montana's Church Universal and Triumphant

Utopia of Desire: The Real and Ideal in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

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