The Country and the City

Name: The Country and the City
Author: Raymond Williams

by Raymond Williams

Literary and cultural history examining rural tradition versus urban industrial transformation

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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.

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