Writing in Society Author:Raymond Williams Williams was regarded by many as Britain's foremost cultural theorist & public intellectual. His work was always concerned with the relation between culture & society. Here, Williams focuses on specific texts & authors, exploring the historical & cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. He examines dramatic form & language in Racin... more »e & Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume & Charles Dickens & the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressel, ''The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists,'' & the role of region & class. Also reflects on the rise of English studies, on their crisis, & on the wider implications of this redefinition of the critical field.« less