Reclaiming William Morris

Michelle Weinroth teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. Paul Leduc Browne is professor of political science at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.

• Philosophical reflections - towards a theory of propaganda; conservative propaganda and the legacy of William Morris; propaganda of the Third International and the emerging; Marxist Morris Matyrdom and the communist intellectual; the irrationality of rationalist discourse - a phenomenology of communist propaganda; "England, our England" - the sublime poetics of communist propaganda; "the biting edge of British humour" - the sublime patriotism of Cold War communists.

"An interesting contribution to cultural studies. Weinroth's close readings of various propaganda are particularly effective. She demonstrates most convincingly that dissenting propaganda cannot easily disentangle itself from the fetishistic ideologies of the bourgeois society it seeks to contest." Evelyn Cobley, Department of English, University of Victoria.