WILLIAM MORRIS’S CHILD CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND THE FAIR: MEDIEVALISM AND THE ANTI-NATURALISM OF THE 1890s
WILLIAM MORRIS’S CHILD CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND THE FAIR: MEDIEVALISM AND THE ANTI-NATURALISM OF THE 1890s
Author(s): Claudia Ioana DoroholschiSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: anti-naturalism; 1890s; fin-de-siècle; Medievalism; William Morris
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the relationship between William Morris’s Medievalist aesthetics and the other anti-naturalist trends at work in the 1890s, by looking at his fantasy writing, particularly Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. The way in which his text makes use of the generic markers of the fairy-tale, its treatment of closure and of authorship and the use of ornamentation all connect Morris’s writing to fin-de-siècle experimentation.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 129-137
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English