Culture and Society
1780–1950
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Aug '17
Should be back in stock very soon
A ground-breaking work exploring how culture developed in the West. Relevant and readable more than fifty years after its first publication
Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society.Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society. Provocative and revolutionary in its day, this work overturned conventional thinking about the development of a common British mentality.
He was the foremost political thinker of his generation in Britain who in his most formidable books, Culture And Society, The Long Revolution and The Country And The Town, redrew the map of our cultural history, and elsewhere made heroic interventions in the main political debates of his time * Guardian *
For those who read English in the '60s, it was common to revere Williams as both a rock of integrity and a pathfinder for new ways of seeing culture, communication, class and democracy * Independent *
Brave, intelligent, and disciplined...a most impressive work -- C. P. Snow
Penetrating, lucid, objective, and also honestly engaged...the best reasoned plea that I have read for a common culture -- Angus Wilson
Brilliantly intelligent...a good critic and also an original thinker -- Stuart Hampshire
ISBN: 9781784870812
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 29mm
Weight: 344g
496 pages