Morris stood between the increasingly active anarchist wing of the Socialist
By 1890, British socialism was driven by factionalism, based on conflicting ideas of how to bring about the new society. The story works beyond its own context, and reflects on later narratives as well as earlier ones, but it is firmly rooted in the circumstances of its composition and publication. The class system has vanished and hostility between people is reduced to good-tempered teasing or grumbling, except for occasional but significant murders. His alterego, William Guest, arrives in the postrevolutionary world of the future to find everything cleansed, renewed and healed: London, and indeed England, is restored to an idyllic rural state of harmony without the need for laws, prisons or coercion of any kind. News from Nowhere than in any of Morris's other works. He idea that violence can bring about peace is more fully developed in Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.In the following passage from her book on William Morris, Hanson convincingly shows, contrary to much modern criticism, that he believed in violent revolution.
The text is based on that of 1891, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris to the first edition.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Morris's rejection of state socialism and his ambition to transform the relationship between humankind and the natural world, give News from Nowhere a particular resonance for modern readers. Drawing on the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morris's book is not only an evocative statement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive contribution to the utopian tradition. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'Chapters from a Utopian Romance' recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. 'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.'
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