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The Laws of Hospitality: Liberty, Generosity, and the Limits of Dissent in William Morris's The Tables Turned and News from Nowhere

Abstract:This article scrutinizes recent critical claims that William Morris's "The Tables Turned (1887)" and "News from Nowhere (1890)" constitute exceptionally tolerant and accommodating visions of the ideal society. The first section provides evidence in support of Morris's liberalistic concern for the rights of minorities. The second and third sections complicate this analysis, stressing Morris's parallel commitment to informal regulatory methods. Particular attention is directed towards the role of hospitality in these utopias, a form of generosity whose combination of freedom and control is comparable to the operation of gift-exchanges as understood by Marcel Mauss.