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The Morris Society in the United States is pleased to sponsor two sessions at the Modern Language Association Convention to be held in Seattle, WA, in January 2020.  Our first session, “Re-evaluating the Pre-Raphaelites,” examines how  in the past decade a number of exhibitions from Manchester to Moscow have reassessed Pre-Raphaelite art and design, from  William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision  at the Manchester Art Gallery in 2009 to the traveling exhibition  Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement  at venues through 2021. These displays have positioned the intersection of art, design, and literature as defining features of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement, marking them as both “avant-garde” and deeply engaged with the past. The papers in this session thoughtfully respond to these recent re-evaluations of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement.  439. Reevaluating the Pre-Raphaelites   1: ‘I Seek No Drea

The William Morris Society in the United States is calling for applications for the 2020 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship. The deadline is December 1, 2019 . Applications are judged by committee, and the decision will be announced by January 15, 2020. The Dunlap Fellowship supports scholarly and creative work about William Morris.  The fellowship offers funding of $1000 or more for research and other expenses, including travel to conferences and libraries. Projects may deal with any subject—biographical, literary, historical, social, artistic, political, typographical—relating to Morris. The Society also encourages translations of Morris's works and the production of teaching materials (lesson plans and course materials) suitable for use at the elementary, secondary, college, or adult-education level. Applications are sought particularly from younger members of the Society and from those at the beginning of their careers. Recipients may be from any country and need not have an

[Image 1] Frontispiece of  News from Nowhere, Kelmscott Press Edition William Morris & the Environment When William Guest awakes in the future utopian London envisaged by Morris in News from Nowhere , the ‘smoke-vomiting chimneys’ are gone, there are salmon nets catching salmon in the Thames, and he is taken out on the river by a boatman who is utterly confounded by attempts to pay him for the boat trip, the exchange of labour for money being a completely alien concept. [1]    Evidently society has fundamentally transformed, and with it the environment.   News from Nowhere is in many ways Morris’ response to man-made (or specifically capitalist-made) environmental degradation.   This blog post focuses on Morris’ environmentalism and the insight his utopia offers for twenty-first century responses to environmental crisis, in particular with regards to a common concern about the scale on which humans are acting as agents for environmental change. [Image 2]  1871 Ordnance Survey