Culture and Society, 1780-1950

One of the century's most distinguished public intellectuals, Raymond Williams (1921-1988) helped to create and form the conceptual space of contemporary literary & cultural studies.

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