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Supplementary Materials on The Water of the Wondrous Isles
MORRIS'S NOTES ON THE PLOT OF TALE
CRITICISM
Bennett, Phillippa. "Rediscovering the Topography of Wonder: Morris, Iceland, and the Late Romances."
JWMS
16.2-3 (2005): 38-48.
Bennet, Phillippa, "Rejuvenating Our Sense of Wonder: The Last Romances of William Morris,"
William Morris in the Twenty-First Century,
eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 209-228.
Boos, Florence. “The Socialist New Woman in William Morris’s
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
,”
Victorian Literature and Culture,
Vol. 23(1995): 159-75.
Boos, Florence. “Gender Division and Political Allegory in The Last Romances of William Morris.”
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies
I.2 (1992): 12-23.
Calhoun, B., & Modern Language Association of America.
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).
Calhoun, Blue, “`The Little Land of Abundance’: Pastoral Perspective in the Late Romances of William Morris,”
Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris
, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
Çelikkol, Ayşe. “The Planetary in Morris’s Late Romances.”
JWMS
22.4 (Summer 2018): 15-30.
Cooper, Jane S. "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances."
JWMS
5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
Gopen, George D. "The Music of the Mind: Structure and Substance in William Morris's
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
."
JWMS
16/23 (2005): 92-102.
Hollow, John. “Deliberate Happiness: The Late Prose Romances of William Morris,”
Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris
, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
Kirchhoff, Frederick, “Introduction.”
Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris
, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
Kelvin, Norman. “The Erotic in
News from Nowhere
and
The Well at the World’s End,
”
Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris
, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
May Morris's Remarks on the Prose Romances, May Morris,
William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist,
Oxford: Blackwells, 1936.
Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances."
JWMS
13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
Oberg, Charlotte, “Motif and Theme in the Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” in
Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris
, with an introduction by Frederick Kirchhoff, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
Silver, Carole. “Myth and Ritual in the Last Romances of William Morris.”
Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris
, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
Silver, Carole. "Socialism Internalized: The Last Romances of William Morris."
Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris
, edited Florence Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
Spatt, Hartley. "William Morris's Late Romances: The Struggle Against Closure."
History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism
. Garland Publishing, Inc.: New York & London, 1992, 109-135.
Talbot, Norman, ed. and intro.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.
Talbot, Norman, "'Whilom, as tells the tale': The Language of the Prose Romances."
JWMS
8 (1989): 16-25.
Watts, Theodore. Unsigned review.
Athenaeum
, December 1897, no. 3658, 777-79.