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William Morris and the Idea of Community : Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914

The request for double-weighting this book rests on the range of its original research, and the interdisciplinary complexity of its discussion. It explores the concept of ‘community’ in Victorian philosophical and sociological thought in relation to the literature of the period, linking the work of the Victorian polymath William Morris to the arguments about community and modernity that dominated nineteenth-century culture. Five years in preparation, it involved research in the Labour History and Working Class Movement archives in Manchester and Salford, as well as in Victorian periodicals, history and anthropology, bringing together the realms of literature, politics, and historiography.