Utopia - Brossura

Ross Bradshaw

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1907869506 ISBN 13: 9781907869501

Casa editrice: Five Leaves Publications, 2012

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The second annual themed compendium of writing by Five Leaves' authors and friends. Includes contributions from Paul Barker, Marie Louise Berneri, Will Buckingham, Ian Clayton, Jeff Cloves, Gillian Darley, Dennis Hardy, Pippa Hennessy, Haywire Mac, Mike Marqusee, John Lucas, William Morris, Chris Moss, Deirdre O'Byrne, John Payne, Peter Preston, Andy Rigby, David Rosenberg, Leon Rosselson, J. David Simons, Paul Summers, Mandy Vere, Colin Ward and Ken Worpole.

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It is a great pleasure to recommend this lively and attractive publication. It is dedicated to the memory of [the William Morris Society] former Chair, Peter Preston, and contains an edited version of his Kelmscott Lecture Dreaming London: The Future City in Morris and Others. It is good to be reminded of Peter s voice and commitment as we read his concluding view that News from Nowhere is, overwhelmingly, a text marked by hope'. The 26 other articles begin chronologically with Morris s important and little-known A Factory as It Might Be', together with comments on it by the late Colin Ward, The Factory We Never Had . Articles with historical reach include Marie Louise Berneri s Utopias of the Nineteenth Century , originally published in her Journey Through Utopia in 1950, John Payne on The Putney Debates, 1647-2012 , Ian Parks on Welsh Utopia: Shelley at Tremadoc , Paul Barker on New Lanark, and John Lucas on New Zealand and Utopianism in the 19th Century , which makes good use of a painting to bring out the attractions of the place, but concludes by reminding us that what might have been utopian for the early settlers has proved less so in the long run for the Maories. On the musical side - for how could there not be music in Utopia? - we have Leon Rosselson with The World Turned Upside Down and his tribute to Morris, Bringing the News from Nowhere , and Haywire Mac with A Tramp s Utopia: The Big Rock Candy Mountain . Other contributions discuss Marge Piercy s Non-Utopia in Woman on the Edge of Time , the News from Nowhere Bookshop in Liverpool, which opened on May Day 1974 and is still going strong, and The Golden Era of the Kibbutz , a title which suggests the problems necessarily involved in developing utopian communities in an ever-changing world, while Andrew Rigby deals with the same subject in Communes Revisited . We also learn about Moravian burial grounds and the community at Whiteway, near Stroud, as well as more domestic scenes in Keeping It in the Family by Pippa Hennessy, and My Grandmother s Kitchen (at Half-Past Two on a Weekday Afternoon) by Ian Clayton. And we end relaxedly with Ross Bradshaw s In Search of Utopia Down the Pub . From this rushed survey I hope it is clear that there is something here for everybody, and I would urge members to get themselves a copy of this very reasonably priced publication. No reference has so far been made to Mike Marqusee s introductory piece Let s Talk Utopia , which offers an eloquent defence of the utopian genre and an appeal to those of us who refuse to accept that there is no alternative to free-market capitalism. --Peter Faulkner, William Morris Society

The second in Ross Bradshaw's imaginative annual collections of essays, Utopia follows the excellent and well received Maps and precedes 2013's Crime. Bradshaw has a knack of bringing together intriguing, ostensibly different writers to compile a suggestive, wide-ranging miscellany of observations which questions more than it concludes and nicely whets the intellectual appetite. --Alan Dent, Socialist History

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• Editore: Five Leaves Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1907869506
• ISBN 13: 9781907869501
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Ross Bradshaw