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The Country and the City | 
| Author: Raymond Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 181662
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0195198107
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.932
EAN: 9780195198102
ASIN: 0195198107
Publication Date: March 27, 1975
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Product Description
As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A nice man and I... August 5, 2005
G. T. A. Bath (New Orleans)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Really like this book. As a rural dwelling, rural upbrought, bumpkin, who nevertheless has had habitual social intercourse with city folk, and cities themselves, it plunged me, through its meditations on history and literature, deeply into the images, signs and languages that have subconsciously impregnated all our imaginations and at which we instinctively grope when trying to make sense of those most fundamental of divisions, rural/urban, modern/tradition, nature/civilisation. Being less versed in English lit than Williams-meister, I found it a bit difficult to keep up at times, but it also whetted by appetite for getting down to some serious literature consumption myself.
If you read it, you won't think about the "countryside" in quite the same way again...which is to say, you'll actaully think about the countryside as a changing cultural notion, rather than not think about it, which has got to be alright.
Wack this on the old bookshelve, and surprise your friends with your hidden marxist-critical-intellectual side. It worked for me.
 A Must Read for Literature Students & Scholars June 18, 2000
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
Williams' *The Country and the City* is a classic study on the relationship between literature and society. His arguments are original and interesting, and formulate useful, if not necessary reading for later marxist criticisms. Some parts of the book are taken from one of Williams' earlier books entitled *The English Novel From Dickens to Lawrence*. Williams' writing is lucid and accessible, particularly in comparison to other critical texts. Students and Scholars of 19th and 20th literature, and individuals interested in rural/urban literature should definitely be familiar with this text.
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