Raymond Williams
Welsh cultural theorist and novelist who founded cultural materialism and was a key figure in the development of cultural studies. Keywords redefined how we think about the vocabulary of culture and society. Culture and Society traced the development of the idea of culture in response to capitalism.
Works
- Culture and SocietyIntellectual history of culture concept in English thought since industrial revolution
- The Long RevolutionStudy of cultural change in England examining literacy, media, and social movements
- KeywordsDictionary of keywords exploring contested terms central to cultural and political debate
- Marxism and LiteratureTheoretical synthesis of Marxist and cultural approaches to literature and society
- The Country and the CityLiterary and cultural history examining rural tradition versus urban industrial transformation