Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh
socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the
New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the
Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of
cultural studies and
cultural materialism.
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