Culture and Society
Book by Raymond Williams
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Culture and Society, 1780-1950 is a book published in 1958 by Welsh progressive writer Raymond Williams, exploring how the notion of culture developed in Great Britain, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Williams argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
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| Author | Raymond Williams |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Cultural studies |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
| Publication date | 1958 |
| Media type | Print (book) |
| ISBN | 0-7012-0792-2 |
| OCLC | 16466015 |
Synopsis
According to Oliver Bennet, in writing a review for the International Journal of Cultural Policy about this book in 2010, "In examining the work of over 40 writers, including Burke, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mill, Matthew Arnold, Marx, William Morris, Oscar Wilde and T.S. Eliot, Williams identifies a tradition of thinking about culture, which develops in response to the changing social and economic conditions brought about by the growth of industrialism."[9]
Further reading
By Williams
- Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Croom Helm, 1976). Originally intended as an appendix to Culture and Society.
About Williams
- Milligan, Don (2007). Raymond Williams: Hope and Defeat in the Struggle for Socialism. Studies in Anti-Capitalism. E-book.
- Mulhern, Francis (January–February 2009). "Culture and Society, Then and Now". New Left Review. II (55). New Left Review.