The Thing-Cultures of Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy and William Morris News from Nowhere

摘要

This paper considers Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy alongsideWilliam Morris's News from Nowhere through the lens of Bill Brown's ThingTheory. From the 'things' of Arnold's primarily object-less ideas to the'things' of Morris's primarily idea-less objects, the author argues thateach writer rejects nineteenth-century commodity culture in order toimagine establishing new orders of the material and immaterial.