Culture and society, 1780-1950 / Raymond Williams.
By: Williams, Raymond
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BookPublisher: London : New York : Penguin ; Columbia University Press, 1983Description: xx, 362 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140205209 (UK); 0231022875 (US); 0231057016 (US).Subject(s): Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 306.4
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
On spine: Culture & society, 1780-1950.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1958.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Part 1 A Nineteenth-Century Tradition
- I Contrasts
- i
- ii
- 2 The Romantic Artist
- 3 Mill on Bentham and Coleridge
- 4 Thomas Carlyle
- 5 The Industrial Novels: Mary Barton and North and South, Mrs Gaskell; Hard Times, Dickens; Sybil, Disraeli; Alton Locke, Kingsley; Felix Holt, George Eliot
- 6
- 7 Art and Society
- Part II Interregnum
- i
- ii The ' New Aesthetics'
- iii George Gissing
- iv Shaw and Fabianism
- v Critics of the State
- vi
- Part III Twentieth-Century Opinions
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4 Two Literary Critics
- i
- ii
- 5 Marxism and Culture
- 6