Discusses English art and literature in relation to society.; Includes essays on Romantic art, D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot.

Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred ye

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of though

As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literary studies, it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favour of the semio

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Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies, including governments, corporations, education and the media. In recent years, research into these cultur