Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling - Softcover

Niall Gildea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1837723966 ISBN 13: 9781837723966

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2026

Synopsis

Raymond Williams is one of the most important anglophone cultural critics of the twentieth century. In a distinguished career, his readings of the British literary canon offered radical new ways of looking at British society as it developed from the Romantic period into the modern age. Central to this reevaluation was the idea of ‘structures of feeling’, which Williams shaped in order to explain the ways in which members of societies felt about one another, and how they changed over time. The authors of the present volume examine the idea of structures of feeling, and its value for ongoing contemporary debates about relationships of human feeling in areas such as anthropology, economics, law, literary studies, philosophy, psychology and social geography.

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About the Author

Niall Gildea is Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University. He is the author of Jacques Derrida’s Cambridge Affair: Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality (2019). Louise Braddock is an independent scholar, formerly Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. Trained as a psychiatrist, she later taught philosophy, and now writes on philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837723966
• ISBN 13: 9781837723966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376