“The Road of War” and “The Path of Peace”: William Morris’s Representation of Violence

This paper takes as its starting point J. S. Mill’s comment on war, described as “an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things”, as well as Freud’s theory of war neuroses in his “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” (1915), and uses both these concepts to advance a new reading of William Morris’...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eleonora Sasso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2007-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/10545