Culture and Society

Culture and Society is a book published in 1958 by Welsh progressive writer Raymond Williams, exploring how the notion of culture developed in the West, especially Great Britain, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Culture and Society
First American edition (1960)
publ. Columbia University Press
AuthorRaymond Williams
LanguageEnglish
GenreCultural studies
PublisherChatto and Windus
Publication date
1958
Media typePrint (book)
ISBN0-7012-0792-2
OCLC16466015

When first published, the book was widely regarded as having overturned conventional social and historical thinking about culture. It argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake. This is done through a series of studies of famous British writers and essayists, beginning with Edmund Burke and William Cobbett, also looking at William Blake, William Wordsworth, etc., and continuing as far as F. R. Leavis, George Orwell and Christopher Caudwell.

The book is still in print, in several editions. It has also been translated into many languages.

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By Williams

About Williams
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