Culture and Society
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Culture and Society is a book published in 1958 by Welsh leftist writer Raymond Williams, exploring how the notion of culture developed in the West, especially Great Britain, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Culture and Society Author(s) Raymond Williams Language English Genre(s) Cultural studies Publisher Chatto and Windus Publication date 1958 Media type Print (book) ISBN 0701207922 OCLC Number 16466015 When first published, the book was widely regarded as having overturned conventional social and historical thinking about culture.[citation needed] It argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake. This is done through a series of studies of famous British writers and essayists, beginning with Edmund Burke and William Cobbett, also looking at William Blake, William Wordsworth, etc., and continuing as far as F. R. Leavis, George Orwell and Christopher Caudwell.
The book is still in print, in several editions. It has also been translated into many languages.
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
- Don Milligan, Raymond Williams: Hope and Defeat in the Struggle for Socialism (ebook) Studies in Anti-Capitalism, 2007. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
- Francis Mulhern, "Culture and Society, Then and Now", New Left Review 55, Jan–Feb 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
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