- Bib ID:
- 8071730
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Raymond, author
- Description:
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- New York : Columbia University Press, 1958
- ©1958
- xx, 363 pages 23 cm
- Summary:
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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. -- publisher's website
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Part 1: A Nineteenth-Century Tradition
- I. Contrasts
- i. Edmund Burke and William Cobbett
- ii. Robert Southey and Robert Owen
- 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. J. H. Newman and Matthew Arnold
- 7. Art and Society
- Part II: Interregnum
- i. W. H. Mallock
- ii. The ' New Aesthetics'
- iii. George Gissing
- iv. Shaw and Fabianism
- v. Critics of the State
- vi. T. E. Hulme
- Part III: Twentieth-Century Opinions
- 1. D. H. Lawrence
- 2. R. H. Tawney
- 3. T. S. Eliot
- 4. Two Literary Critics
- i. I. A. Richards
- ii. F. R. Leavis
- 5. Marxism and Culture
- 6. George Orwell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index.
- Subject:
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