Publisher's Synopsis
Peter Preston's 2002 Kelmscott Lecture places Morris's 1890 novel News From Nowhere within a context of imaginative writing about London. It reads Morris's text in relation to works by other London dreamers, reaching back to the late 18th century, through the 19th century and into the early years of the 20th century, considering work by writers such as Thomas Macaulay, Richard Jefferies and H G Wells.
