Raymond WilliamsIn his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. After his death, he has remained a symbolic figure and his classic works, Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, The Country and the City continue to inspire new generations all over the world. In this first major biography, Fred Inglis has spoken to those who knew this complex and charismatic man at every stage of his life, from his boyhood in the Welsh border country to his brief years of retirement. Through their voices and his own passionate stories and at times combative engagement with his subject, he tells of a story of a life not just for its time but for our own. After Thatcher and Reagan and the Cold War, Williams still has much to teach us about the nature of a good and just society and about the constant struggle to attain it. |
Contents
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THE GOOD TOWN ABERGAVENNY AND THE SCHOLARSHIP BOY | 43 |
HIS CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADUATE COMMUNIST | 70 |
GUARDS OFFICER | 86 |
WORKERS EDUCATION IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND | 107 |
OUTSIDE THE WALLS | 136 |
MR RAYMOND WILLIAMS AND DR FR LEAVIS | 162 |
WATCHING TELEVISION | 218 |
THEORY AND EXPERIENCE | 240 |
END OF AN EPOCH | 266 |
FOR CONTINUITY | 297 |
Notes | 308 |
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LEADER OF THE LEFTINEXILE | 196 |
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