The Country and the City

Name: The Country and the City
Brand: Vintage Publishing
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Raymond Williams

Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our societys changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.

Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward countryside. Examining literature since the sixteenth century, Williams traces the development of our conceptions of these two traditional poles of life. His groundbreaking study casts the country and city as central symbols for the social and economic changes associated with capitalist development.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TRISTRAM HUNT

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Weight: 360g
Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
Publication Date: 04 Feb 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781784870829

About Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy and was educated at the village school at Abergavenny Grammar School and at Trinity College Cambridge. After serving in the war as an anti-tank captain he became an adult education tutor in the Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies. In 1947 he was an editor of Politics and Letters and in the 1960s was general editor of the New Thinkers Library. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge in 1961 and was later appointed Professor of Drama.His books include Culture and Society (1958) The Long Revolution (1961) and its sequel Towards 2000 (1983); Communications (1962) and Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974); Drama in Performance (1954) Modern Tragedy (1966) and Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1968); The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (1970) Orwell (1971) and The Country and the City (1973); Politics and Letters (interviews) (1979) and Problems in Materialism and Culture (selected essays) (1980); and four novels the Welsh trilogy of Border Country (1960) Second Generation (1964) and The Fight for Manod (1979) and The Volunteers (1978).Raymond Williams was married in 1942 had three children and divided his time between Saffron Walden near Cambridge and Wales. He died in 1988.