Details the histories of one hundred-fifty-five words that have acquired cultural and social significance, noting specific meanings, extent and intensity of uses, and related issues and contexts

Product Description: Raymond Williams's personal sociological critique of television is presented here through reprinting articles written in "The Listener" between 1968 and 1972. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of media studies.

Raymond Williams, whose other works include Keywords, The Country and the City, Culture and Society, and Modern Tragedy, was one of the world’s foremost cultural critics. Almost uniquely, his work bridged the divides between aesthetic and socio-economic inquiry, between Marxist thought and mainstream liberal thought, and between the modern and post-modern world. When The Long Revolution first appeared in 1961, much of the acclaim it received was based on its prescriptions for Britain in the ’60s, which form a relatively brief final section of the whole. The body of the book has since come to be recognized as one of the foundation documents in the cultural analysis of English-speaking culture. The “long revolution” of the title is a cultural revolution, which Williams sees as having unfolded alongside the democratic revolution and the industrial revolution. With this book, Williams led the way in recognizing the importance of the growth of the popular press, the growth of standard English, and the growth the reading public in English-speaking culture and in Western culture as a whole. In addition, Williams’s discussion of how culture is to be defined and analyzed has been of considerable importance in the development of cultural studies as an independent discipline. Originally published by Chatto & Windus, The Long Revolution is now available only in this Broadview Encore Edition.

Matthew Price, a university professor in economic history, returns home to Wales from London and faces childhood memories he thought he had long forgotten

Modern Tragedy, first published in 1966 by Stanford University Press, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the literary production and analysis of tragedy. Now available only in this Broadview edition.

Product Description: Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the approach that has come to be known as “cultural materialism.” Yet Williams’s method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year period in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship...read more

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Discusses broadcasting institutions, programming practices, and media uses in England and the U.S. to uncover relationships between the technology and socio-cultural importance of television

A collection of Raymond Williams's writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It seeks to bring together material that has been long overlooked by commentators on his work, and emphasizes both the centrality of his Welshness to his work as a whole, and the continuing relevance of his thought for post-devolution Wales.

This carefully-structured reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williams' existing work, providing existing readers with a new perspective on his writings, and new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth.

Product Description: Raymond Williams was the founder of an approach that was to become known as “cultural materialism.” Yet, Williams‘s method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects toegther his most significant work from over a 25-year period in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship...read more

Examines the origins, organization, and development of culture and analyzes the relationship between cultural institutions and social behavior

Raymond Williams’s work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines dramatic form and language in Racine and Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume and Charles Dickens and the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, and the role of region and class in the English novel. Also included are Williams’s reflections on the rise of English studies, on their crisis as the literary traditions of Cambridge University were beset by the ‘structuralist controversy’, and on the wider implications of this redefinition of the critical field.

The loyalties of Cambridge graduates and Welsh miners are tested in the Spanish Civil War, in occupied France, and during a lengthy miners strike