Archive of Politics and Letters

Our Cultural and Literary Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

From across 50 years of publishing at Verso.

Here, published for the first time, is an extract from the renowned socialist cultural theorist Raymond Williams's famous ‘When Was Modernism?’ lecture, delivered at the University of Bristol in March 1987, and taken from the newly published Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism – the first Williams book for more than three decades to include new material.