Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review
Raymond Williams has made a central contribution to the culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by members of the New Left Review editorial committee, that is designed to bring into clear focus the major theoretical and political issues posed by his work. Ranging across his biographical development, the evolution of his cultural theory and literary criticism, his work on dramatic forms and his fiction, the volume concludes with an exploration of Williams’s positions on British and international politics.
Paperback, 446 pages
ISBN: 9780860917359
January 1981
$29.95 / £19.95
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“An absolutely riveting piece of work.”
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“For anybody interested in the relationship between literature and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this book is essential reading.”
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