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FROM THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM MORRIS STUDIES

Baker, Lesley A. "An Old House Amongst New Folk." JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 24-27.

Coleman, Roger. "Design and Technology in Nowhere." JWMS 9.2 (Spring 1991): 28-39.

Delveaux, Martin. "From Pastoral Arcadia to Stable-State Mini-Cities: Morris's News from Nowhere and Callenbach's Ecotopia." JWMS 14.1 (Autumn 2000): 75-81.

Ebbatson, J. R. "Visions of Wild England: William Morris and Richard Jefferies." JWMS 3.3 (Spring 1977): 12-29.

Faulkner, Peter. "News from Nowhere in Recent Criticism." JWMS 5.3 (Summer 1983): 2-7.

Fellman, Michael. "Bloody Sunday and News from Nowhere." JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 9-18.

Gagnier, Regina. "Morris's Ethics, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation." Regenia Gagnier, JWMS 16/23 (2005): 9-30.

Gilbert, Nathaniel. "The Landscape of Resistance in Morris's News from Nowhere."JWMS 16/23 (2005): 22-37.

Highfill, Jannett. "International Trade in News from Nowhere." JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 31-35.

Holland, Owen. "Revisiting Morris's Socialist Internationalism: Reflections on Translation and Colonialism (with an annotated bibliography of translations of News from Nowhere, 1890-1915), JWMS 21.2 (Summer 2015).

Holm, Jan. "The Old Grumbler At Runnymede."JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 17-21.

Jacobs, Naomi. "Beauty and the Body in News from Nowhere." JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 26-30.

Kent, Eddy. "Green Cosmopolitanism in Morris's News from Nowhere." JWMS 19.3 (Winter 2011), 64-78.

Kinna, Ruth. "Time and Utopia: The Gap Between Morris and Bax," JWMS 18.3 (Winter 2009), 36-47.

Latham, David. "Hope and Change: Teaching News from Nowhere." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 6-23.

Laurent, Beatrice. "The Landscapes of Nowhere." JWMS 18.2 (Summer 2009), 52-64.

Leopold, David. "William Morris, News from Nowhere and the Function of Utopia," JWMS 22.1 (2016), 18-41.

Levitas, Ruth. "More, Morris, Utopia . . . and us," JWMS 22.1 (2016), 4-17.

Macdonald, Alex. "The Liveliness of News from Nowhere: Structure, Language and Allusion." JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 22-26.

Macdonald, Alex. "The Revision of News from Nowhere." JWMS 3.2 (Summer 1976): 8-15.

Maloney, Kathleen. "Studying the Past, Envisioning the Future: Teaching History via William Morris's News from Nowhere." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 41-53.

Marsh, Jan. "News from Nowhere as Erotic Dream." JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 19-23.

Mayer, Jed, "A Darker Shade of Green: William Morris, Posthumanism, and Ecotstastrophe," JWMS 19.3 (Winter 2011), 79-92.

McKinstry, Susan Jaret. "Taking Our Eyes Out of Our Pockets: Teaching William Morris's Ideal Book." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 89-98.

Miles, Rosie. "Teaching Morris Online."JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 54-72.

Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "Collections and Collectivity: William Morris in the Rare Book Room." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 73-88.

Mineo, Ady. "Eros Unbound: Sexual Identities in News from Nowhere." JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 8-14.

Nichols, Ashton. "Liberationist Sexuality and Nonviolent Resistance: The Legacy of Blake and Shelley in Morris's News from Nowhere." JWMS 10.4 (Spring 1994): 20-27.

O'Sullivan, Patrick. "!Homenaje a Aragon! News from Nowhere, Collectivisation and the Sustainable Future," JWMS 19.3 (Winter 2011), 93-111.

Pinkney, Tony. "Cycling in Nowhere."JWMS 13. 2 (Spring 1999): 28-33.

Pinkney, Tony. "The Dialectic of Nature in Nowhere," JWMS 19.3 (Winter 2011), 50-63.

Pinkney, Tony. "Edward Bellamy's Review of News from Nowhere." JWMS 20.1 (Winter 2012).

Pinkney, Tony. "Kinetic Utopias: H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia and William Morris's News from Nowhere." Tony Pinkney, JWMS 16/23 (2005): 49-55.

Pinkney, Tony. "News from Nowhere as Seance Fiction." JWMS 18.3 (Winer 2009), 29-47.

Pinkney, Tony. "News from Nowhere in Recent Criticism, revisited." JWMS 20.2 (Summer 2013).

Vervaecke, Philippe. "Teaching News from Nowhere in France for the CAPES and the Agrégation in English Studies, 2004-2006." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 24-40.

Veselá, Pavla. “On the Way to Nowhere: The Revolutionary Politics of Time in The Pilgrims of Hope.” JWMS 24.4 (2022): 49-67.

Wood, Andrew J. “This Is A Pipe: The Aesthetic Object in Morris’s Nowhere.” JWMS 23.3 (2019): 17-35.

OTHER ARTICLES ON NEWS FROM NOWHERE

Beaumont, Matthew. "To Live in the Present: News from Nowhere and the Representation of the Present in Late Victorian Utopian Fiction," Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 119-136.

Boos, Florence S. "News From Nowhere and 'Garden Cities': Morris's Utopia and Nineteenth-Century Town-Design." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies n. s. 7.2 (Fall 1998): 5-27.

Boos, Florence S. "An (Almost) Egalitarian Sage: William Morris and Nineteenth-Century Socialist-Feminism." Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Regnegotiating Gender and Power, ed. Thais E. Morgan, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Boos, Florence S. "The Ideal of Everyday Life in William Morris' News from Nowhere." The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910. (DQR Studies in Literature, vol. 46, 2010): 141-170.

Boos, Florence S. and William Boos. "News from Nowhere and Victorian Socialist Feminism." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 14.1 (1990): 3-32.

Boos, Florence and William Boos. "Orwell's Morris and 'Old Major's' Dream," English Studies 71.4 (1990), 361-71.

Boos, Florence and William. "The Utopian Communism of William Morris." History of Political Thought 7.3 (1986): 489-510.

Boos, Florence S. "Personal and Political Lieux d'Anticipation in News from Nowhere." William Morris, News from Nowhere, Ouvrage Collectif Coordonné par Béatrice Laurent (Editions du Temps: Nantes, 2004): 93-107.

Campbell, Wanda. "Clothes from Nowhere: Costume as Social Symbol in the Work of William Morris." Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 107-17.

Carré, Jacques. "Architecture, Utopia and History in Morris's Thought." Morris Day, January 2005, Universite Paris 13, Jacques Carré (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne).

Donaldson, Laura. "Boffin in Paradise, or the Artistry of Reversal in News from Nowhere." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 26-60.

Faldet, David. "The River at the Heart of Morris's Ecological Thought." Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 73-84.

Frye, Northrop. "The Meeting of Past and Future in William Morris." Studies in Romanticism, Fall 1982, Vol.21(3), p.303

Hale, Piers J. "William Morris, Human Nature and the Biology of Utopia," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 107-127.

Herbert, Karen. "News from Nowhere as Autoethnography: A Future History of 'Home Colonization'. Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 85-106.

Holzman, Michael. "Anarchism and Utopia: William Morris's News from Nowhere." ELH, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 589-603

Johnson, Lionel. Review, Academy, 23 May, 1891, xxxix, 483-84.

Kelvin, Norman, "The Erotic in News from Nowhere and The Well at World's End." Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975. New York: William Morris Society (1976).

Kinna, Ruth. "Socialist Fellowship and the Woman Question." Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 183-196.

Latham, David. "Between Hell and England: Finding Ourselves in the Present Text," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 193-207.

Latham, David. "'To Frame a Desire': Morris's Ideology of Work and Play." Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 155-172.

Liberman, Michael. "Major Textual Changes in William Morris's News from Nowhere." Nineteenth-Century Literature 41.3 (1966): 349-56.

Lloyd, Trevor. "The Politics of William Morris's News from Nowhere." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 273-28

MacDonald, Alexander. "Bellamy, Morris, and the Great Victorian Debate." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 74-87.

Marsh, Jan. "Concerning Love: News From Nowhere and Gender." William Morris & News from Nowhere: A Vision for Our Time. Eds. Stephen Coleman and Paddy O'Sullivan. (Bideford, Devon: Green Books, 1990): 107-125.

Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "No News is Good News," from Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Print Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. [pdf].

Parham, John. “Sustenance from the Past: Precedents to Sustainability in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.” Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture. Ed. Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, and Louise Squire. 2017. 33-51.

Pinkney, Tony. "Versions of Ecotopia in News from Nowhere," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 93-106.

Sargent, Lyman Tower. "William Morris and the Anarchist Tradition." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 61-73.

Seys, Madeleine. ‘Museum Catalogue Record: William Morris’s News from Nowhere.’ Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies, 43.1 (2017): 30-35.

Smith, Peter. "Attractive Labour and Social Change: William Morris Now," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 129-150.

Talbot, Norman. "A Guest in the Future: News from Nowhere." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 38-60.

Trouvé-Finding, Susan. "Real and Imaginary Topography in News from Nowhere." Morris Day, 8 January 2005, Université Paris 13, Susan Trouvé-Finding, Université de Poitiers

Watkinson, Ray. "The Obstinate Refusers: Work in News From Nowhere." William Morris & News from Nowhere: A Vision for Our Time. Eds. Stephen Coleman and Paddy O’Sullivan. (Bideford, Devon: Green Books, 1990): 91-106.

TRANSLATIONS

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Czech translation. [Zvěsti z Nejsoucna čili Epocha Míru.] 1900.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Dutch translation. [Nieuws uit Nergensoord.] Translated by F. van der Goes. Amsterdam: S.L. van Looy, 1897. (Google Books)

William Morris, News from Nowhere, extracts, French translation. [Nouvelles de Nulle Part,] extraits. Translated by P. La Chesnais. Paris: Societé Nouvelle de Librairie et d’Edition, 1902.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, German translation. [Kunde von Nirgendwo, ein utopischer Roman.] Translated by Wilhelm Liebknecht. Stuttgart, 1920.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Italian translation. [La Terra Promessa] (chapter index). Translated by Ernestina d’Errico. Milan, 1895.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Japanese translation. [理想卿]. Translated by 堺利彥 (Sakai Toshihiko). Tokyo, 1904 (1920 edition).

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Polish translation. [Wieści z Nikąd: powieść utopijna.] Translated by Marvi Kreczowskiej. Lwów (Lviv), 1902.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Russian translation. [Вести ниоткуда, или Эпоха спокойствия.] Translated by N. I. Sokolova (Н. И. Соколовой). Moscow, 1962.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Serbian translation. [Вести ни од куда.] Translated by Dušan M. Bogosavljević (Душан М. Богосављевић). Beograd, 1911.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Spanish translation. [Noticias de Ninguna Parte.] Buenos Aires, 1928.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Swedish translation. [Nytt Fran En Ny Varld, Eller En Hvilans Tid.] Translated by C.N. Carleson. Stockholm, 1892.

William Morris, News from Nowhere, Swedish translation. [Fran Framtidslandet, Eller En tid af Hvila.] Chapters 1 and 2. Translated by Axel Lundeberg. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Gnistan, July 15, 1891.