Talk:News from Nowhere

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It can not be judged as a novel as there is little plot and the narrator is less than credible in that he is Socialist League member, which allows Morris to let him explain conditions in 19th Century Britain to the people of the future but on the other hand he shows an unexpected naiveness towards the society he finds. It is unlikely that a Socialist League member would be surprised by the lack of money and how people work for fulfilment rather than finacial reward not that there is no formal government to speak of. This naivity, however, allows the narrator to pose questions that might well come to mind to non socialists who Morris hopes to convince.

"Nowhere" should be understood in the sense of utopia as the setting is very much London and the Thames valley. As a genre it has far more in common with a travel book than a novel - just don't expect London to be quite like how Morris describes it, should you visit it.

I know what the point is supposed to be here: it could fairly be said that News From Nowhere has some very jarring and unsophisticated features as outlined above. Yet the criticism above falls under original research and the useful bits are covered already. Mattley 16:43, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

a more ecologically sustainable and socially just society

Blewitt merely states that News from Nowhere is one of three utopian books possibly influential for "those concerned with fashioning a more ecologically sustainable and socially just society". I have therefore decided to remove the sentence stating that Blewitt cites the book as influencing Green Utopias, such as the ones by Marshall and Raskin. Since the one mention in the ref given by me is the only instance Blewitt mentions Morris in Understanding Sustainable Development, I consider that sentence to be unsourced. Mark in wiki (talk) 15:06, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

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