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William Morris and Edward Carpenter: back to the land and the simple life, 1880-1910
No full textThis thesis focuses on the influence of William Morris and Edward Carpenter on
aspects of the back-to-the-land and simple-life movements between the years 1880-
1910. Specifically, it seeks to define and explore the convergence and divergence of
both writers' return-to-nature ideology, and considers their influence on the
development of particular groups, who represented some of the multiplicity of backto-
the-land ideas and experiments current during this period. The thesis is divided
into three main parts; the intellectual framework for the study is broad, and takes into
account the historical context, the cultural significance and the character of the
material in each section.
The first part of the thesis undertakes an expository evaluation of key texts
from Morris's and Carpenter's political journalism, lectures and imaginative writing,
examining how both writers developed an appropriate language to convey their
social and political ideals. The critical method employed uses detailed textual
analysis, identifying and discussing the individual qualities of Morris's and
Carpenter's back-to-the-land writing, and reflecting on the differing emphases of
their utopian rhetoric. The second part of the research explores the take-up of
Morris's and Carpenter's ethos in four diverse and little known late-nineteenthcentury
journals, concerned with simple-life issues and a return to the land, namely
Seed-time, The New Order, Land and Labor and Land and People. It employs the
thinking of Pierre Bourdieu and Mikhail Bakhtin to establish an appropriate balance
between critical theory and empirical study. Lastly using a historical and descriptive
method the thesis uses archival material to examine the nature and extent of both
writers' influence on two Cotswold back-to-the-land experiments - the Whiteway
Colony and the Chipping Campden Guild of Handicraft. These provide a particular
opportunity to consider and compare the practical outcomes of return-to-the-land and
simple-life ideologies.
The study extends scholarship in this area by significantly re-appraising the
relationship between Morris's and Carpenter's back-to-the-land writing, and reinstating
Carpenter as a germinal influence. It also increases our understanding of the
values and function of the journals in the study, and establishes an insight into the
wider cultural assimilation of both writers' ideals
Report: Edward Carpenter, March 1964.
No full textReport: Black and white original, 8.75 x 11.75 inches (22.2 cm x 29.8 cm)Report titled Brave New Town, by Edward Carpenter, reprinted from Industrial Design, March 1964. By fall 1964 a town will have sprung full blown from the wooded, hilly countryside near Washington, D.C. What is surprising is that the countryside will still be there and what is significant is that the entire town is being designed with a vengeance, as if one carefully thought out, attractive town might save the world. This article gives the background of Reston and the planned community concept; information of the designs and developers; and many pictures and graphics detailing Reston's progress. Planned Community Archives Collection, 444.04
Article: Edward Carpenter, "Brave New Town," Industrial Design, March 1964
No full textTextual: Article, 12" x 9.0625" ( 30.5 cm x 23.1 cm)Reprint of an article from Industrial Design from March 1964 by Edward Carpenter entitled "Brave New Town." This article discusses the planning and development of Reston, Virginia. Attention is specifically paid to the philosophy, aesthetic, and the sales office of Reston. Also mentioned in this article is the place that Reston holds in the Year 2000 plan of the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council. Planned Community Archives Collection, 457.0
A Study of the Naturalism of Edward Carpenter : A View of his Critique of Modern Civilization
Full text linkHistorically, the concept of nature has been in correlation with the sensibilities of each passing era, and classified as an individual social category. The current negative aspects of environmental destruction provoked by the domination of nature through technology has raised present ethical and moral conscienceness of people with regard to this problem. A man well ahead of his time, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), being aware of the inescapable relationship between man and nature and striving to awaken this innate conscienceness in people, advanced a critique of modern civilization in a bid to instill his views on environmental problems into contemporary society. This paper examines the problems surrounding the interrelationship between the “outside” environment and the “inside” environment as advanced by Carpenter in his critique of modern civilization. The main thrust of his critical essay on modern civilization was the classification of two meanings for disease as a loss of oneness or as a loss of harmony. The first malady he defined as being brought on by the wasting of one’s constitution by social parasitic groups, and the second malady he described as the falling from a state in which one is fully cognizant of his oneness to a state in which this oneness has disappeared. Aiming for a restoration of harmony from within the latter state, Carpenter elucidated what the basis of life is, and experimented with the aim of actualizing a revolution in lifestyles by undertaking production activities in harmony and intimate communion with nature while experiencing nature that labors to interweave nature and life ‘ineinanderarbeiten’.departmental bulletin pape
Letter to Edward Kennedy from John A. Carpenter
No full textCopy of a letter to the honorable Edward Kennedy as follow up after a reception given for Carpenter by Senator Harrison Williams in 1975
The Foundation of Historical Awareness in Sanshirō Ishikawa : A Comparative Study on Contacts with Edward Carpenter
Full text link“History only depicts the self through intervention between both subject and the present. The problem lies, therefore, in the method of intervention.” At the basis of the historical awareness expressed in these words is an attitude of critical questioning into the problem of principle in the relationship between the self and the other and into the conditions that regulate those relationships. The period in which Sanshirō Ishikawa was strengthening his interest in history and in which he published his manuscript on this subject was one that embraced the early years of Shōwa era, a time when Japan was embarking on the path toward war. He bore up under his “winter of discontent,” never losing his perspective of “illumination from within.” His attitude of excluding “arbitrariness from without” and depending on “strength from within” is connected with the criticism of fundamental thinking that led to the superficial thought dominant in that era. It is here, however, that the influence of Edward Carpenter must not be overlooked. The awareness of crisis seen in Carpenter arises from a duality between social conditions in periods of transition and the danger of extreme imbalance and ultimate polarization between individual and social ethics under such conditions. This paper investigates Ishikawa’s historical awareness and seeks to explore the intellectual congruence between Ishikawa and Carpenter in the duality of problem awareness. The problem awareness they shared is in an as yet unsystematized stage with regard to confirming the position of the self in the understanding of society as a whole and with regard to the problematic nature of attaining that understanding. A search for clues to a solution is attempted, however, by incorporating nature into the perspective. On the basis of an idea of a state of harmony between original nature and social nature, this paper seeks to derive a policy for recovering the totality of human nature.departmental bulletin pape
Pictures at Michigan Agricultural College taken about 1888. Now Michigan State College
No full textMAC student, Edward J. Frost created an album of the MAC Campus and buildings from negatives he borrowed from MAC Professor Rolla C. Carpenter
A tree and paths on campus, circa 1888
No full textA tree and paths on campus, circa 1888. The image is from a photo album created by MAC student, Edward J. Frost. He made the prints from negatives he borrowed from MAC Professor Rolla C. Carpenter
Interior of the Library, circa 1888
No full textAn interior view of the Library with bookshelves and desks, circa 1888. The image is from a photo album created by MAC student, Edward J. Frost. He made the prints from negatives he borrowed from MAC Professor Rolla C. Carpenter
Wells Hall (1), circa 1888
No full textAn exterior view of the front of Wells Hall (1), circa 1888. The image is from a photo album created by MAC student, Edward J. Frost. He made the prints from negatives he borrowed from MAC Professor Rolla C. Carpenter
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