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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: William Morris: Delaying Ball’s New World

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42762

Blurb:

This chapter looks at the most influential portrayal of Ball since Southey: William Morris’s A Dream of John Ball. This includes discussion of how Morris saw Ball as a martyr, a kindred spirit, a Catholic, and a revolutionary example for the present and future from a historical materialist perspective.

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