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In News from Nowhere, the urban giant that was Victorian London has given way to a semi-rural built-up environment scattered in the forest, to such an extent that Marx and Engels’s aim to bridge the gap between town and country seems to have been reached. An indictment of capitalism and of the horro...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2004-09-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/3261 |
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| Summary: | In News from Nowhere, the urban giant that was Victorian London has given way to a semi-rural built-up environment scattered in the forest, to such an extent that Marx and Engels’s aim to bridge the gap between town and country seems to have been reached. An indictment of capitalism and of the horrors of industrialisation, Morris’s “romance” presents a communist society in which large cities have disappeared. However, such an idyllic picture conveys some of the very values of the society it claims to denounce. This paper will examine the cultural and social context of a clearly anti-urban and pro-rural stance, and attempt to assess its political ambivalence. |
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| ISSN: | 0248-9015 2429-4373 |