Raymond Williams
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Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988) was a highly influential Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge and became Professor of Drama at the University of Cambridge (1974 - 1983). A committed socialist, he was greatly interested in the relationships between language, literature, and society and published many books, essays and articles on these and other issues. His books include:
- Reading and Criticism (1950)
- Drama from Ibsen to Eliot (1952)
- Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958)
- The Long Revolution (1961)
- Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974)
- Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society (1976)
- People of the Black Mountains, a semi-fictional history
- Marxism and Literature (1977)
- Politics and Letters: Interviews with "New Left Review" (1981)
- The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists
- A trilogy of novels, Border Country (1960), Second Generation (1964), and The Fight for Manod (1979)
- Studies in social history, politics, cultural studies and communications.