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«Culture and Society: Coleridge to Orwell» is the critical essay by Raymond Williams, published by The Hogarth Press in paperback (363 pages, in English).
Raymond Williams traces how the concept of culture took shape after the industrial revolution and how authors such as Burke, Ruskin, Arnold, Shaw, Lawrence, T. S. Eliot and Orwell used it to think about social change, economics and literature. The work proposes a materialist reading of British cultural history.
1987 reissue of the work originally published in 1958 as «Culture and Society, 1780-1950». Includes a new preface by the author, index and bibliography (pp. 339-354).
Aimed at students and readers interested in literary criticism, cultural studies and British social history.
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.
