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The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

Johnson, Lesley

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032645350
ISBN13: 9781032645353
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2023
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change. The tradition of criticism in which these intellectuals wrote represented the artistic imagination as a moral force in society and a fundamental mechanism for social change. The author traces this tradition through the writings of various English intellectuals, using the three main figures of Matthew Arnold, F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams to elucidate the concept. She shows, through the writings of their contemporaries, how the concept was employed and modified, and her analysis ranges from J. S. Mill, John Ruskin and William Morris, through George Bernard Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot and R. H. Tawney to Richard Hoggard, Richard Wollheim and R. S. Peters. By discussing the questions of the role of art in society and examining their treatment by different groups of intellectuals, the author has supplied a basis for a forceful critique of the quality of life in modern industrial society. This book will be of interest to students of literature, cultural history and the sociology of culture.

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