Culture and Society

Book by Raymond Williams

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

Culture and Society

* First American edition (1960)
* publ. Columbia University Press

Author| Raymond Williams
Language| English
Genre| Cultural studies
Publisher| Chatto and Windus

Publication date

| 1958
Media type| Print (book)
ISBN| 0-7012-0792-2
OCLC| 16466015

Williams argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake.[1] This is done through a series of studies of famous British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, 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.

## Further reading

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### By Williams

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* Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Croom Helm, 1976). Originally intended as an appendix to Culture and Society.

### About Williams

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* Milligan, Don (2007). Raymond Williams: Hope and Defeat in the Struggle for Socialism. Studies in Anti-Capitalism. E-book.
* Mulhern, Francis (January–February 2009). "Culture and Society, Then and Now". New Left Review. II (55). New Left Review.

## See also

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* Information culture

## References

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1. ^ Clive, John (July 1959). "Review: Culture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams". The American Historical Review. 64 (4): 934–935. doi:10.2307/1905142. JSTOR 1905142.

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