Lloyd Eshleman. A Victorian Rebel. The Life of William Morris.

CONTENTS

BOOK I

DAYS OF YOUTH

I – The Family

II – A Little Boy Questions His Small World

III – A Child’s «Utopia»

IV – A Dream World Disappears

V – A Pre-Oxford Summary

VI – Oxonians Are Christians, Socialists and Christian-Socialists, It Seems

VII – The Pre-Raphaelites Are Discovered

VIII – «The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine» Flourishes Amid Chaos

IX – Plunging into the Center of Life: Art, Painting, Poetry and Dirt

BOOK II

FROM OXFORD TO THE DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION

I – Morris and Burne-Jones Have a Studio on Red Lion Square

II – Jane Burden Is Discovered: «I Cannot Paint You, but I Love You»

III – «The Defense of Guenevere»

IV – Morris & Company: Honeymooning, and Week-Ending at Red House

V – The House on Queen Square: Living the Good Life and Manufacturing Art

VI – «The Life and Death of Jason»: Morris Turns Toward a Romantic Literature of Discontent

VII – The Northern Sagas and «The Earthly Paradise»

VIII – Discovering Iceland and Kelmscott Manor

IX – «Love Is Enough»—But Morris Is Still Dissatisfied

X – Morris Again Rebels Against His World: Inspired Comments on What Is Cheap and Tawdry

XI – «Sigurd the Völsung» and a Poetry Chair at Oxford

XII – Art, Politics and Society Are Still in a Muddle

BOOK III

DAYS OF THOUGHT

I – Hard Words on Arty Industry and Social Standards

II – This Is an Age of Literary Reformers: Carlyle, Arnold, Morris and Ruskin

III – Morris Formulates an Artistic-Social Philosophy —But the World Is Not Disturbed

BOOK IV

THE S. D. F. — AND REVOLUTION

I – Perhaps the Solution Lies in Social Revolution

II – Henry Mayers Hyndman and the Democratic Federation

III – The S. D. F.—England’s First Marxist Organization

IV – The British Royal Commission and Testimony at Oxford

V – A Periodical Known as «Justice»

VI – Marxism Is Not Enough, and Mr. Hyndman Is a Domineering Fellow

VII – Schism in the S. D. F.

BOOK V

THE SOCIALIST LEAGUE—AND BLOODSHED

I – The Socialist League Bustles into Headlong Activity

II – «The Commonweal»—That Admirable Publication

III – Agitation and Revolution: The Prosperous Middle Classes Go into Hiding

IV – Bloody Sunday on Trafalgar Square

V – Every Johnson Has His Boswell: Glasier Reports on William Morris

VI – Signs of Change—From Glasgow to Hammersmith

VII – Anarchy Disrupts the Socialist League: Anarchy à la Valencia

VIII – The World-Redeeming Americans

IX – But Morris’s Literary Efforts Still Continue

X – The Dynamite Plots and Other Dastardly Activities—Morris Retires in Disgust and Founds the Hammersmith Socialist Society

BOOK VI

THE HAMMERSMITH SOCIALIST SOCIETY—AND VICTORY IN SIGHT

I – New Friends and Old Rally in the New Practical Socialism

II – Morris’s Latest Principles of Discontent

III – Morris and Bax Rewrite History: They Make a Glorious Book, Which Isy Unfortunately, Now Out of Print

IV – Kelmscott Press and Morris’s Later Literature of Content

V – A New Sprit in the Labour Movement: Robert Blatchford and the Clarion Call

VI – Morris and Burne-Jones Discuss Art and Revisit the Scenes of Their Youth

VII – Morris’s Last Trip to the Home of the Vikings: The Prophet Returns to Valhalla

EPILOGUE

«THE SINGERS HAVE SUNG AND THE BUILDERS HAVE BUILDED»

I – William Morris and the Ideas of the Future

II – William Morris and the Builders of the Future

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