Long revolution

By:

Williams, Raymond

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: "Middlesex, Eng."; Penguin Books; 1984Description: 399 pISBN:

140207627

Subject(s):

Great Britain Social History

DDC classification:

306.4 WIL

Summary: In The Long Revolution Raymond Williams continues the inquiry he began so successfully in Culture and Society. Examining the gradual change which is coming over our political, economic and cultural life, he lays special emphasis on the 'creative mind' in relation to our social and cultural thinking. After discussing the theory of culture he turns to a fascinating historical study of such institutions as education and the press, traces the development of a common language, and reveals the links , between ideas, literary forms and social history. The gradual emergence of a common culture is what Britain needs, and Raymond Williams devotes the concluding essay of the book to a discussion of the stage this has reached and the conflicts surrounding it.

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In The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
continues the inquiry he began so successfully in
Culture and Society.
Examining the gradual change which is coming
over our political, economic and cultural life, he
lays special emphasis on the 'creative mind' in
relation to our social and cultural thinking. After
discussing the theory of culture he turns to a
fascinating historical study of such institutions as
education and the press, traces the development
of a common language, and reveals the links
, between ideas, literary forms and social history.
The gradual emergence of a common culture is
what Britain needs, and Raymond Williams
devotes the concluding essay of the book to a
discussion of the stage this has reached and the
conflicts surrounding it.

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