Paradise Dislocated: Morris, Politics, Art (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) - Softcover

Skoblow, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081392944X ISBN 13: 9780813929446

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 radical manifestation of that vision. Paradise Dislocated explores the problematic relations between critical thought, art, utopian aspirations, and dystopian realities. It proposes a revaluation of Morris's poem and of his career as a whole, as well as a judgement upon the possibilities (and impossibilities) of imaginative and cultural criticism at Morris's moment-and at our own.

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JEFFREY SKOBLOW is Assistant Professor of English at Southen Illinois University at Edwardsville.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 081392944X
• ISBN 13: 9780813929446
• Binding: Paperback