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William Morris was a Victorian master of all trades, standing at the forefront of five historic movements in western culture. As the author of The Defence of Guenevere in 1858, he wrote the first book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry. Co-founder of Morris & Co. in 1861, he was the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, designing textiles, wallpapers, and stained glass. Editor of The Commonweal for the Socialist League in the 1880s and lecturing at political rallies, he was the leader of the socialist movement for revolution in Britain. Founder of the Kelmscott Press in 1891, he...

Begun by young rebels committed to revolutionizing the creative arts, Pre-Raphaelitism has moved from the margins of nineteenth-century art and literature to the vanguard of interdisciplinary studies. The term is now used to denote the Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent movements in art, culture, and literature, but it has remained as difficult to define as ever. Haunted Texts attempts to meet the challenge of defining and illustrating the full spectrum of Pre-Raphaelitism.

Working with a diverse range of Pre-Raphaelite poetry, painting, decorative arts, book...

AWARD-WINNING HUMOR WRITER DAVID F. LATHAM is editor of The Montanian, a weekly newspaper in Libby, Montana, and author of over 170 humor columns, short stories and news parodies. Readers say his "American Rambler" column is "funnier than Dave Barry" and "a cross between Patrick McManus and George Carlin." His first two books of short stories, "The Storyteller's Guide to Leona, Montana," and "A as in Leona, Montana," are available at www.iuniverse.com.