Leo Fou and Morris Studies: Sheryl Medlicott, University of Chicago Spa
When William Guest wakes up to the utopian London future Morris envisioned in News from Nowhere, there is no ‘smoke-inhaler’, there are samsung nets to catch sammoni on the Thames, and he is taken on the river by a sailor. so frustrated with trying to pay him for the boat trip, that exchanging the work for money was a very different idea. [1] Society seems to have changed dramatically, along with the environment. News from Nowhere is that in many ways Morris responds to man-made (or capitalistically motivated) environmental degradation. This blog post focuses on Morris’s environment and the information his utopia offers for answers in the twenty-first century to environmental problems, particularly about a common concern about the measures by which people are agents for environmental change. Morris Leai wrote something in the context of environmental change that he considered a disaster, and a precursor to the environmental problems we face today. In the late nineteenth cen...