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Book SynopsisA prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, the work of William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of this polymath, whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris scholars from a variety of fields, offering a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching William Morris. Across the book’s five sections – “Art and Design,” “Literature,” “Political Contexts,” “Pasts and Presents,” and “Digital Humanities” – readers will learn the history of Morris’s place in the modern curriculum, the current state of the field for teaching Morris’s work today, and how this pedagogical effort is reaching beyond the classroom by way of books, museums, and digital resources.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “The Earthly Paradox”: Teaching William Morris Jason D. Martinek and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller Part I: Pasts and Presents 1. “Teaching Morris in Chicago, c. 1900” Elizabeth Helsinger 2. “Naturalizing the Dignity of Labor: The Hull-House Labor Museum and William Morris’s Influence on the American Settlement House Movement” Elizabeth Grennan Browning 3. “Time Travelling with William Morris” John Plotz 4. “‘Work and Fun’ and ‘Education at its Finest:’ Teaching Morris at Kelmscott House,” Helen Elleston 5. “The Medievalism of William Morris: Teaching Through Tolkien” KellyAnn Fitzpatrick Part II: Political Contexts 6. “A Dream of William Cobbett? Teaching Morris’s John Ball in an Interdisciplinary Course on Victorian Radicalism” Linda Hughes and William M. Meier 7. “‘Vive La Commune!’ The Imaginary of the Paris Commune and the Arts and Crafts Movement” Morna O’Neill 8. “‘Living in Heaven’: Hope and Change in News from Nowhere” David Latham Part III: Literature 9. “Morris Matters: News from Nowhere and Victorian Materialities” Susan David Bernstein 10. “Teaching News from Nowhere in a Course on ‘The Simple Life’” Michael Robertson 11. “Teaching Morris the Utopian” Deanna Kreisel 12. “Teaching Guenevere Through Word and Image” Pamela Bracken 13. “Morris and the Literary Canon” Michelle Weinroth Part IV: Art and Design 14. “Morris for Art Historians” Imogen Hart 15. “William Morris, designer” James Housefield 16. “William Morris and the Intersection of the Histories of Art and Design” Julie Codell Part V: Digital Humanities 17. “Morris for Many Audiences: Teaching with the William Morris Archive” Florence Boos 18. “William Morris on Social Media: A Personal Experience, 2007-2017” Tony Pinkney 19. “Digital Design with William Morris” Amanda Golden Index About the Contributors
