Cultural Materialism by Christopher Prendergast

Cultural Materialism by Christopher Prendergast

"Raymond Williams was the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals born before the end of the age of Europe (1492-1945)."-Cornel West The work of Raymond Williams is of seminal importance in rethinking the idea of culture. He is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of international cultural studies. In tribute to his legacy, this edited volume is devoted to his theories of cultural materialism and is the most substantial and wide-ranging collection of essays on his work to be offered since his death in 1988. For all readers grappling with Williams's complex legacy, this volume is not to be missed. Contributors include Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate School, CUNY; John Brenkman, Baruch College, CUNY; Peter de Bolla, Cambridge University; Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley; Stephen Heath, University of California, Santa Cruz; John Higgins, University of Cape Town; Peter Hitchcock, Baruch College, CUNY; Cora Kaplan, Rutgers University; David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley; Robert Miklitsch, Ohio University; Michael Moriarty, Cambridge University; Morag Shiach, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; David Simpson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Gillian Skirrow; Kenneth Surin, Duke University; Paul Thomas, University of California, Berkeley; Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University; and Cornel West, Harvard University.

Christopher Prendergast is reader in modern French literature at Cambridge University and fellow at King's College. He is the author of The Order of Mimesis (1986) and Paris and the Nineteenth Century (1992), and co-editor of The Harper Collins World Reader (1993).

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ISBN 13	9780816622818
ISBN 10	0816622817
Title	Cultural Materialism
Author	Christopher Prendergast
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	1995-05-16
Number of pages	408
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