The Country and the City — Raymond Williams
The Country and the City — Raymond Williams
Title: The Country and the City — Raymond Williams
Author: Raymond Williams
Publisher: Paladin / Granada Publishing
Format: Paperback
Edition: Paladin edition, 1975. First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus in 1973.
ISBN: 0586081836 / 9780586081839
Condition: Second-hand. Vintage paperback with shelf wear, rubbing and creasing to covers, visible soiling and marks to the spine and page edges, bumped corners, and age-toned pages. Please see photos for the exact copy available.
The Country and the City is Raymond Williams’ major study of how English literature has imagined rural and urban life from the sixteenth century onward. He traces the recurring opposition between the “country” as innocence, retreat or organic community, and the “city” as sophistication, power, corruption, money and modernity.
A key work of literary criticism, cultural studies and social history, the book examines how ideas of landscape, class, labour, capitalism, rural nostalgia and industrial change are embedded in English writing.