Culture and Society, 1780-1950Acknowledged 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. |
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abstract active actual argument Arnold artist attitude Bentham bourgeois Burke Carlyle century characteristic Chartism civilization Cobbett Coleridge common consciousness contrast course criticism cultivation D. H. Lawrence democracy difficult economic element Eliot embodiment emphasis England English equality Essays essential evident existing experience F. R. Leavis fact feeling Felix Holt function George Eliot Gissing human I. A. Richards ibid idea of culture ideal important individual industrial Industrial Revolution intellectual judgement kind labour language Lawrence Leavis literary literature living major Marx Marxist Mary Barton masses matter means ment merely Mill mind modern Morris nature novel organization Orwell particular perfection poetry political position practice principle production question R. H. Tawney reality reform rejection relation repr Revolution Romantic Romanticism Ruskin sense social socialist society Southey T. E. Hulme T. S. Eliot theory things thinking tion tradition whole word working-class writing