Flesh and Stone: William Morris's "News from Nowhere" and Chaucer’s Dream Visions.
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
Flesh and Stone: William Morris's "News from Nowhere" and Chaucer’s Dream Visions.
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 188-200.
- Description
- Argues that the "erotics" of William Morris's "News from Nowhere" constitute "an allegorical emblem of its politics," and suggests that the narrative stance of the novel may have been influenced by Chaucer's dream-vision narrator, an "inquisitive, if obtuse, and sometimes embarrassing observer of social and political causes that he does not totally understand."
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion