Culture and society : Coleridge to Orwell /
By: Williams, Raymond.
Publisher: London : Hogarth, 1990Description: xx, 363 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0701207922 (pbk) :; 9780701207922:; 9780701207922 (pbk).Subject(s): English authors -- 18th century | Civilization | English authors -- 19th century | English authors -- 20th century | Literature and society -- Civilzation -- EnglandDDC classification: 801.95Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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801.95 EAG Literary theory : an introduction / | 801.95 LEI The Norton anthology of theory and criticism / | 801.95 MUR Classical literary criticism / | 801.95 WIL Culture and society : Coleridge to Orwell / | 801.95 WOL Literary theories : a reader and guide / | 801.95092 MOR Mikhail Bakhtin : creation of a prosaics / | 801.95092 SAI Out of place : a memoir / |
Includes index.
An outline of dates -- Introduction -- Part I : a nineteenth-century tradition -- 1 : contrasts -- 2 : the Romantic artist -- 3 : Mill on Bentham and Coleridge -- 4 : Thomas Carlyle -- 5 : the industrial novels -- 6 : J. H. Newmam and Matthew Arnold -- 7 : art and society -- Part II : interregnum -- 1 : W. H. Mallock -- 2 : the 'new aesthetics' -- 3 : George Gissing -- 4 : Shaw and Fabianism -- 5 : critics of the state -- 6 : T. E. Hulme -- Part III : twentieth-century opinions -- 1 : D. H. Lawrence -- 2 : R. H. Tawney -- 3 : T. S. Eliot -- 4 : two literary critics -- 5 : Marxism and culture -- 6 : George Orwell -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1958.
Overturning conventional thinking, this book reveals how the very notion of "culture" developed in response to the industrial revolution, and analyzes its treatment by such writers as Burke, Ruskin, Arnold, Shaw, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Orwell.