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“... matters, he shows some concern about the way things are going, and expressly approves of Bernard Williams’s neo-Aristotelian ethics; temperance, and for that matter fidelity, might be called, in Williams’s terminology, ‘thick concepts’, like mercy and honour. The prevailing tone of the book is genial, but there are ...”

“... exploitative social relations sustaining them has been analysed before, and more persuasively, by Raymond Williams and others: Pugh adds little more except page after page of Barthesian whimsy. Eager to translate the language of gardens into the terminology of every prestigious anti-Enlightenment thinker, he embraces the paranoid vocabulary of ...”

“... of the anthropologist have been accepted.’ Once, reading The Pattern Under the Plough (1966), Raymond Williams looked up from the formula on the page, that ‘a way of life that has come down to us from the days of Virgil has suddenly ended,’ reflected on the ever-receding lost rural past of English literary culture, on the immutability of the ...”

“... and ‘dispossession’, which seem to be indebted to Raymond Williams. Following the implicit direction of some of Williams’s work, one senses that Deane might have written a short history of Irish literacy – a cultural history, that is, of the practice of writing and ...”

“... It was that other place, inhabited by bolshie ideologues like Leavis, Empson, I.A. Richards and Raymond Williams, which set the pace as far as concepts and critical procedures were concerned, and which engaged in such superfluous pursuits as reflecting on why one was studying literature in the first place. Oxford people just read the books and said ...”

“... Thompson, than of the right, and she tartly rebukes radical literary critics from George Orwell to Raymond Williams for their limited vision and sympathies. More positively, this leads to some important re-evaluations of major figures: Adam Smith and even Malthus are presented in a more attractive and humane light than is customary; Mayhew gets fewer ...”

“... book in pre-Revolutionary France, but it is certainly a vital ingredient in reconstituting what Raymond Williams has called the ‘structure of feeling’ of the time. For this reason, Darnton’s work will be on the reading list of anyone making a serious study of the literature of 18th-century France. Not that it is entirely obvious what the literary ...”

“... of Class Theory, both Marxist and other, are greater than they are here prepared to admit. Raymond Williams has recently complained that in the whole range of contemporary discussion of this concept and the controversy that surrounds it three basic ‘meanings of class can be seen in operation, usually without clear distinction ... (i) group ...”

“... goes before is interesting, and allies McCarthy with all sorts of other writers and critics – Raymond Williams, Doris Lessing and (perhaps most suggestively) Iris Murdoch – who were all talking about something similar at the same time. You can describe it in many different ways, but it comes down to the disintegration of the representative function ...”

“... are necessary, and creative, and very much a part of Lawrence’s own creativity. As Raymond Williams pointed out, his achievement in Sons and Lovers – ‘writing with the experience; with the mother as well as the son; with the life they belong to’ – is a validation, rather than merely a description, of community. In Sons and ...”

“... the linguist’s more than the literary critic’s heart.) On occasion, Phillipps shapes up like Raymond Williams, in Keywords, and one can foresee useful investigation into such Victorian load-bearing terms as ‘manly’ and ‘maidenly’. As suggestively, Phillipps touches on the shattering impact of the 1870 Education Act in a passing reference to ...”

“... and social change’. His ambition is to get beyond both, taking as his guides E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine. There is a strong dash of Marxism in his fountain of inspiration. In his scrutiny of the Sikh community, he stresses its diversity, as between urban and rural, higher and lower social or caste ...”

“... his collaborators has never been falsified, though it may often have been denied. Mulhern cites Raymond Williams to the effect that ‘what we have to inquire into is not, in these cases, historical error, but historical perspective’: ‘If such constructions – and there are many of them – typically lack any sure empirical grasp of the past, it ...”

“... of my notes or jottings on the backs of envelopes. Books bought in Cambridge from the libraries of Raymond Williams, Dadie Rylands, Tony Tanner, Jack Lindsay and other luminaries. Even the most unassuming books prompted recollections. They composed a sort of biography, each one acting like a door in an advent calendar, opening on to some moment in the ...”

“... of his beseeching: ‘For someone who dislikes being interviewed, you’ve responded generously.’Raymond Williams, writing about Monty Python, said not uncheerfully that ‘English Philistinism has always comforted itself with the half-memory of the man who tried to be a philosopher but found that cheerfulness kept breaking through’ (LRB, Vol.2, No ...”