Liberal Possibilities in a Communist Utopia: Minority Voices and Historical Consciousness in Morris's<i>News from Nowhere</i>

Camarda, Julie

doi:10.1080/08905495.2015.1056285

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

2015

DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2015.1056285

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Liberal Possibilities in a Communist Utopia: Minority Voices and Historical Consciousness in Morris'sNews from Nowhere

Julie Camarda

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REAPPRAISINGNEWS FROM NOWHERE: WILLIAM MORRIS, J. S. MILL ANDFABIAN ESSAYS

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2018

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This article examines News from Nowhere, William Morris's late nineteenth-century utopian romance. It seeks, first, to establish John Stuart Mill as a crucial influence on the text. It argues that, in News from Nowhere, Morris engaged extensively with Mill's mid-century essay On Liberty. It shows how Morris dramatized Mill's “harm principle”; how he challenged the notion that custom must necessarily be antithetical to the “spirit of liberty”; and how he enacted Mill's stricture that “if opponents of all important truths do not exist,” then they must be invented. The article seeks, second, to contest the view that Morris was writing in indignant response to Edward Bellamy's portrait of utopia, Looking Backward. The article argues, instead, that it was rather the Fabians who incurred Morris's indignation. It attempts to demonstrate that if News from Nowhere was indeed an answer to another book, it was an answer to Fabian Essays.

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REAPPRAISINGNEWS FROM NOWHERE: WILLIAM MORRIS, J. S. MILL ANDFABIAN ESSAYS

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Liberal Possibilities in a Communist Utopia: Minority Voices and Historical Consciousness in Morris'sNews from Nowhere

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