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help us think about these larger intertwined institutional and social issues it is William Morris, making this a most timely and important collection. Crucially for Morris, intellectual specialization must be seen as part and parcel of a capitalist system in which the division of labor reigns supreme, mental labor is privileged over manual labor, and our alienation from our own world and its making is profound—so much so today that students struggle to wrap their minds around the idea that labor could be pleasurable, or utopian ideals worth desiring and collectively working toward. In this light, the wealth of hands-on strategies here would be very much to Morris’s liking. We so rarely talk about the nuts and bolts of teaching and our wildest hopes and dreams when teaching what we love; this collection does that. It begins with Martinek and Miller identifying Morris as a “tonic to the political conditions of Trumpism and neoliberalism” and someone who “should be an integral part of the twenty-first-century classroom” (2). By the time I finished the collection, I could not agree more. Carolyn Lesjak Simon Fraser University
帮助我们思考这些更大的、相互交织的制度和社会问题的是威廉·莫里斯,使这本书成为一本最及时、最重要的合集。对莫里斯来说,至关重要的是,智力专业化必须被视为资本主义体系的一部分,在这个体系中,劳动分工至高无上,脑力劳动比体力劳动享有特权,我们与自己的世界及其形成的疏离感是深刻的——以至于今天的学生们很难将自己的思想包裹在劳动可以是愉快的想法上,或值得渴望和共同努力实现的乌托邦理想。有鉴于此,这里丰富的动手策略将非常符合莫里斯的喜好。我们很少谈论教学的细节,在教授我们热爱的东西时,我们最疯狂的希望和梦想;这个系列就是这么做的。它始于Martinek和Miller认为Morris是“特朗普主义和新自由主义政治条件的补品”,是“应该成为21世纪课堂不可或缺的一部分”的人(2)。当我完成收集时,我完全同意。Carolyn Lesjak Simon Fraser大学
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For more than 50 years, Victorian Studies has been devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law and science, as well as review essays, and an extensive book review section. An annual cumulative and fully searchable bibliography of noteworthy publications that have a bearing on the Victorian period is available electronically and is included in the cost of a subscription. Victorian Studies Online Bibliography