Teaching William Morris

Jason D. Martinek is associate professor of history at New Jersey City University. Elizabeth C. Miller is professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

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