The ideology of the text
A polemical response to "the mystifying dislocations of theory and practice embodied in the forms of literary discourse produced out of the culture of industrial capitalism". It represents an attack on currently critical theories through a reassertion of historically-grounded criticism.
Print Book, English, 1990
Open University Press, Milton Keynes [England], 1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
200 pages ; 24 cm
9780335094165, 9780335094158, 0335094163, 0335094155
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1. Signs of the times
2. Unmasking the new idealism
3. Shakespeare: a subversive dialectic
4. Eliot on Milton: an ideology masked
5. Blake's witness: keeping the divine vision in time of trouble
6. Progress and reaction in the age of revolution: Wordsworth, Shelley and Burke
7. Matthew Arnold: culture and the established order
8. William Morris: the change beytond the change
9. Dislocation and despair: Eliot's view of history
10. Literature and appeasement
11. Raymond Williams: towards cultural materialism
12. E.P. Thompson versus Louis Althusser: whose side is Marx on?