Long Revolution

"There remains a third revolution, perhaps the most difficult of all to interpret. We speak of a cultural revolution, and we must certainly see the aspiration to extend the active process of learning, with the skills of literacy and other advanced communication, to all people rather than to limited groups, as comparable to the growth of democracy and the rise of scientific industry." -Raymond Williams in The Long Revolution

Raymond Williams was one of the twentieth-century’s foremost cultural critics, and The Long Revolution has been an extremely influential book. Almost uniquely, Williams’s work bridged the divides between aesthetic and socio-economic inquiry, between Marxist thought and mainstream liberal thought, and between the modern and post-modern world. With this book, Williams led the way in recognizing the importance of documenting the growth of the popular press, of standard English, and of the newly literate reading public in English-speaking culture and Western culture as a whole.

Originally published by Chatto & Windus, The Long Revolution is now available only in this Broadview edition.