Socialist Aesthetics and ‘‘The Shadows of Amiens.” London: William Morris Society, 2011. 64 pp.
The Design of William Morris’s ‘The Earthly Paradise.’ Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
EDITED WORKS:
William Morris on Socialism: Uncollected Essays, ed. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
The Routledge Companion to William Morris, ed. with introduction and chapter; see under articles. New York, 2020. 534 pp. and 112 illustrations.
The Artist and the Capitalist: William Morris and Richard Marsden, ed. with John Walsdorf, Kirkwood, Missouri: The Printery, 2010. [small illustrated fine-press book, 41 pp.]
Our Country Right or Wrong, by William Morris. London: William Morris Society, 2008.
Reviewed in the Morning Star (December 2007) and Socialist Standard (October 2008, http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb).
The Earthly Paradise by William Morris. Vols. I and II. Routledge, New York, 2001. 1639 pages. For introductions, see http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/eptalesintro.html
Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, June 6th, 2003, 1-3, by Clive Wilmer;
in Victorian Poetry 41.3 (Fall 2003), 450-55 by Norman Kelvin [pdf]; in Journal of William Morris Studies 16. 2 and 3 (2005): 111-13 by Rosie Miles.
“William Morris: 1896-1996.” Guest editor for special issue, Victorian Poetry 34.3 (Winter 1996). With an introduction, “Morris’s Poetry and the Fin de Millénaire.”
Reviewed William Morris Society Journal 12.4 (1998): 43-45.
History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism, edited and introduction.
With an article, “Victorian Alternative Futures: ‘Historicism,’ Past and Present, and A Dream of John Ball,” in History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism, ed. Florence Boos. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1992, 3-37, and “Bibliography of Victorian Historicism and Medievalism.” New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris, edited with Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
I contributed the introduction and an article, “Narrative Design in The Pilgrims of Hope.”
“William Morris’s ‘Socialist Diary’,” edited and annotated with introduction and biographical notes, History Workshop, Issue 13 (Spring 1982): 1-75.
Reissued under separate cover, London History Workshop Center series, The Journeyman Press, London, 1985.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1887/diary
Second expanded edition Nottingham: Five Leaves Press, 2017.
Second edition with new introduction and expanded notes, Nottingham: Five Leaves Press, 2018. Reviewed in the Morning Star May 1st, 2018 and Useful and Beautiful 2018.2. For its reception, see also "News from Anywhere," http://morrissociety.blogspot.com (May-June 2018).
The Juvenilia of William Morris, edited with checklist and introduction, New York: William Morris Society, 1982. See revised version, "The Early Poems of William Morris," http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/earlypoems.html
The Socialist Diary by William Morris, edited with introduction. Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1981.
ELECTRONIC EDITIONS:
General editor of the William Morris Archive, 2005-to the present. Included in NINES (the Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), 2009. The Archive may be found at http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu
Digital edition of William Morris’s “Concerning Geffray Teste Noire,” COVE [annotated and illustrated Victorian electronic editions], with Vivian Barton. 2020 http://editions.covecollective.org/editions
The Life and Death of Jason, by William Morris. One of the works edited for the William Morris Archive, 2008. Contains about 2600 images, “pages,” and files, now entered into the NINES databases. Includes introduction, editorial headnote, footnotes, collations, images, maps and supplementary criticism. http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/jason.html
The Early Poems of William Morris. William Morris Archive, 2012. http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/earlypoems.html
In Manuscript and Print: The Poems of William Morris with Locations and Transcriptions, 2012,
William Morris Archive, http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/listpoems.html
(350 pp.; the first attempt to locate all unpublished as well as published poems, with transcriptions of drafts and unpublished poems)
A Dream of John Ball, edited with Peter Wright. http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/dream.html
Gothic Architecture. http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/gothicarchitecture.html
Illustrated on-line edition of William Morris’ News from Nowhere, with Louisa Efner, Karla Tonella et alia, 2003, 2011, 2013.
News from Nowhere: Mapping Morris's Utopia, a digital illustrated, annotated version of News from Nowhere, with maps for each chapter, created in Story Maps. With Hope de Vega and the University of Iowa Digital Studios. http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/newsmap.html.
Digital edition of William Morris’s “Concerning Geffray Teste Noire,” COVE [annotated and illustrated Victorian electronic editions], with Kyle Barton. 2020 http://editions.covecollective.org/editions
CRITICAL NOTES AND ARTICLES:
"Morris the Skald: Icelandic Translation as Social Liberation," Victorian Poetry 62.1, forthcoming 2024.
Prefatory essay, For What In All the World Is So Good As to Fear Nothing: Four Newly Discovered Letters by William Morris, with lithograph illustrations by Richard Wilson, ed. Richard Wilson. Oxford: Flagstone Press, 2021, 1-10.
“From Grief to Wisdom: The Poetry of Morris’s Middle Period” for The Cambridge Companion to William Morris, ed. Marcus Waithe, forthcoming 2024.
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry 2022: D. G. Rossetti and William Morris," Victorian Poetry 61.3 (Fall, 2023).
“’I Was There: The Origins of the U. S. William Morris Society, 1971-1985,” Useful and Beautiful 2021.2.
“Empires and Scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Near East,” Late Victorian Orientalisms: Representations of the East in 19th Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John la Farge, ed. Eleonora Sasso, Anthem Press, 2020, 21-50.
“Introduction: Visions, not Dreams: William Morris as Designer, Entrepreneur, Socialist, Poet . . . .” The Routledge Companion to William Morris, ed. Florence S. Boos. New York: Routledge, 2020, 1-23.
“Morris, Gender, and the Woman Question,” The Routledge Companion to William Morris, ed. Florence S. Boos, New York: Routledge, 2020, 58-86.
“Second Generation Pre-Raphaelitism: The Poetry of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine,” in Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics, eds. Amy Huseby and Heather Witcher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 83-116.
“The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry 2021: D. G. Rossetti and William Morris,” Victorian Poetry, 61.3 (Fall, 2022).
"Where Have All the Manuscripts Gone? Morris's Autographs in Diaspora," Journal of William Morris Studies 24 (2018).
"Morris for Many Audiences: Teaching with the William Morris Archive," Teaching Morris, eds. Jason Martinek and Elizabeth Miller, Madison, New Jersey and Vancouver: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2019.
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry 2020: Pre-Raphaelitism." Victorian Poetry 60.4 (fall 2021).
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry 2019: Pre-Raphaelitism." Victorian Poetry 59.4 (fall 2020): 361-76.
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry 2018: Pre-Raphaelitism." Victorian Poetry 58.4 (fall 2010).
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry 2017: Pre-Raphaelitism." Victorian Poetry 57.4 (fall 2018).
"Empires and Scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Near East," Victo rian Orientalisms, ed. Eleonora Sasso and Sandro Jung. Forthcoming Lehigh: Lehigh University Press, 2018. Images
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry 2016: Pre-Raphaelitism," Victorian Poetry 56.4 (fall 2017).
"The Pre-Raphaelites and the Colbeck Collection," Useful and Beautiful 2017.2, 4-12.
"James Tochatti: A Little-Known Morris Socialist Comrade," Useful and Beautiful 2017.2, 24-27. With Stephen Williams.
"What Makes Morris's Poetry Distinctive? An Introduction to his Lyrics and Narratives," William Morris Society Magazine, June 2017, 2-8.
"The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry, 2014: Pre-Raphaelitism," Victorian Poetry 54.3 (fall 2015): 327-36.
"William Morris." The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Literature, eds. Dino Felluga, Linda K. Hughes and Pamela Gilbert. London: Blackwell's, 2015.
"Attributions of Authorship in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine," Notes and Queries 61.4 (November 2014): 561-63. http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/gju128? ijkey=Z0jRMedGb7bNNpw&keytype=ref
"The Socialist League," BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History), ed. Dino Felluga. April 2015. http://www.branchcollective.org/
"The First Morris Society: Chicago 1903-1905," Journal of William Morris Studies 22.2 (2014): 35-48.
“May Morris’s Talk on Her Father,” edited, William Morris Society U. S. Newsletter, Winter 2009, 16-17. http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/newsletters/newsltr-jan09.pdf
“Memoir of William Morris by R. W. Dixon,” edited, William Morris Society U. S. Newsletter, Winter 2008, 19-24. http://www.morrissociety.org/newsltrs/newsltr-jan08.pdf
“Dystopian Violence: William Morris and the Nineteenth-Century Peace Movement,” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 14 (Spring 2005): 20-41.
Reprinted with “Our Country Right or Wrong” as a separate booklet by the William Morris Society in the UK, London, 2008.
“William Morris’s ‘Our Country Right or Wrong: A Critical Edition,’” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 14 (Spring 2005): 42-61.
Reprinted by the William Morris Society in the UK, London, 2008.
“’Our Country Right or Wrong’: A Little Noticed Essay by William Morris.” William Morris Society in the United States Newsletter, Fall 2005, 11-12.
http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/newsletters/newsltr-fall05.html
“The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry, 2004: Pre-Raphaelitism,” Victorian Poetry 43.3 (2005): 371-83.
“The Personal and Political as Lieux d’Anticipation in News from Nowhere,” in William Morris’ News from Nowhere, ed. Beatrice Laurent, Editions du Temps: Nantes, France, 2004, 93-107. [pdf version available]
“The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry, 2002: Pre-Raphaelitism,” Victorian Poetry 41:3 (2003): 424-35.
“Ten Journeys to the Venusberg: Morris’s Drafts for ‘The Hill of Venus.’” Victorian Poetry 39.4(2002), 597-615.
http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/journals/victorian_poetry/v039/39.4boos.html
pdf, "Ten Journeys"
“The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry, 1998: Pre-Raphaelitism.” Victorian Poetry 37.3 (1999), 55-64.
“News from Nowhere and Garden Cities: Morris’s Utopia and Nineteenth Century Town Design," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 7, new series (fall 1998): 4-27. News from Nowhere and Garden Cities pdf
“The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry, 1996: Pre-Raphaelitism.” Victorian Poetry 35.3 (1997): 408-22.
“The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry, 1995: Pre-Raphaelitism.” Victorian Poetry 34.4 (1996): 604-13.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” “Charlotte Wilson,” “William Morris,” entries for Victorian Britain, ed. Sally Mitchell, New York: Garland Press, 1988, 100-101, 512-14, 862-63.
“Love Is Enough as Secular Theodicy,” Papers on Language and Literature 24.4 (Winter, 1988): 53-80.
“The Argument of William Morris’s The Earthly Paradise,” Victorian Poetry 23.1 (1985): 75-92.
"Prologue: The Wanderers’,” Papers on Language and Literature 20.1 (Fall, 1984): 397-417.
“Morris’s German Romances as Socialist History,” Victorian Studies 27.3 (Spring, 1984): 321-42.
“Victorian Response to Earthly Paradise Tales,” Journal of the William Morris Society 5.4 (Winter, 1983-84): 16-29. http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/W83-84.5.4.Boos.pdf
“Orpheus’s Failed Search for Resurrection: An Omitted Earthly Paradise Tale,” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 4.1 (November, 1983): 58-86. http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/orpheussupple.html
“Medievalism in Alfred Tennyson and William Morris,” Victorians’ Institute Journal 7 (1978): 19-24.
REVIEWS:
Review of Kristen Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, New York: Verso Press, 2015. Useful and Beautiful 2017.2 (2017), 27-28.
Review of Phillippa Bennett, Wonderlands: The Last Romances of William Morris (London, 2015). Useful and Beautiful 2017.1(2017), 36-37.
Review of William Morris and the Embodiment of Dreams, ed. Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne, Montreal: McGill Univerity Press, 2014. Useful and Beautiful 2016.2 (November 2016), 32-34.
EDITORIALS, PERSONAL ACCOUNTS, INFORMAL WRITING:
“Letter from Florence Boos,” William Morris Society-US Newsletter, Winter, 2008, 2-3.
“Letter from Florence Boos,” William Morris Society-US Newsletter, Summer, 2007, 2-3.
“Letter from Florence Boos,” William Morris Society-US Newsletter, Winter, 2007, 2-3.
“Letter from Florence Boos,” William Morris Society-U. S. Newsletter, Summer, 2006, 2-3.
“Letter from Florence Boos,” William Morris Society in the United States Newsletter, Winter 2006, 1.
“With William Morris in Iceland: The First Week,” U. S. William Morris Society Newsletter, April, 1987, 5-12; “The Second Week”; July, 1987, 7-14.
Other Essays:
'Art for Life's Sake': Morris's Defense of the Decorative Arts, 1877-82