- History and criticism, Country life in literature, City and town life in literature, English literature
This book is a sustained and thoroughgoing attempt to relate English literature to its social background. This book has given us a right and timely admonition against sentimental falsifications of rural life and of nature. - Back cover.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Raymond Williams
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 335
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus, Hogarth Press, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195197365
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