Culture and Society, 1780-1950

Raymond Williams
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Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
Genres: HistoryNonfictionSociologyCultural StudiesPhilosophyCulturalTheoryLiterary CriticismCriticismPolitics
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