Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Morris in 1996

Peter Faulkner

Peter Preston

Part I: Morris and the Environment

An Aesthetic Ecocommunist: Morris the Red and Morris the Green

Florence S. Boos

Part II: Morris and Literature

Shadow of Turning in The Earthly Paradise

William Blissett

Sigurd the Volsung: Heroic Poetry in an Unheroic Age

Simon Dentith

The Troy Connection: Myth and History in Sigurd the Volsung

Amanda Hodgson

Beatrice and Ellen: Ideal Guides from Hell to Paradise

Adriana Corrado

William Morris and the Bear: Theme, Magic and Totem in the Romances

Norman Talbot

News from Nowhere and The Spoils of Poynton: Interiors and Exteriors

Norman Kelvin

Part III: Morris, the Arts and Crafts and the New World

Sacred and Profane Love: The Oxford Union Murals and the Holy Grail Tapestries

Christine Poulson

`The Beautiful Book That Was': William Morris and the Gift of A Book of Verse

Rosie Miles

William Morris in New England: Architecture and Design in Late Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island

Pedro Beade

William Morris and Nineteenth-Century Boston

Lindsay Leard-Coolidge

`Every Artist would be a Workman, and Every Workman an Artist': Morrisian and Arts and Crafts Ideas and Ideals at the Ontario Educational Association 1900--1920

E. Lisa Panayotidis-Stortz

The Dilemma of Place: Arts and Crafts Architecture in the Antipodes

Ian J. Lochhead

Part IV: Morris, Gender and Politics

William Morris and Victorian Manliness

Jan Marsh

Beyond the Law of the Father: The `New Woman' in News from Nowhere

Ady Mineo

Lady Griselda's Dream: May Morris's Forgotten Play

Janis Londraville

Morris, Anti-Statism and Anarchy

Ruth Kinna

E. P. Thompson and William Morris

David Goodway

Notes to Chapters

Papers and Lectures delivered at the William Morris Centenary Conference

Contributors

Postscript: The Work of the William Morris Society

Index