Teaching William Morris

Edited by Jason D. Martinek and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller - Contributions by Susan David Bernstein; Florence Boos; Pamela Bracken; Julie Codell; Hellen Elletson; KellyAnn Fitzpatrick; Amanda Golden; Imogen Hart; Elizabeth Helsinger; James Housefield; Linda Hughes; Deanna Kreisel; David Latham; Jason D. Martinek; William M. Meier; Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; Morna O'Neill; Tony Pinkney; John Plotz; Michael Robertson and Michelle Weinroth

A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, 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 Morris, 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 this book’s five sections—“Pasts and Presents,” “Political Contexts,” “Literature,” “Art and Design,” 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 well beyond the college classroom.

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 318 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-68393-073-0 • Hardback • October 2019 • $95.00 • (£65.00)

978-1-68393-074-7 • eBook • October 2019 • $90.00 • (£60.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century

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Summary

A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, 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 Morris, 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 this book’s five sections—“Pasts and Presents,” “Political Contexts,” “Literature,” “Art and Design,” 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 well beyond the college classroom.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 318 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-68393-073-0 • Hardback • October 2019 • $95.00 • (£65.00)

978-1-68393-074-7 • eBook • October 2019 • $90.00 • (£60.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century

Author

Jason D. Martinek is associate professor of history at New Jersey City University.

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

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

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