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The ideology of the text

Published 1 January 1990
Christopher Hampton
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Abstract

Part 1: signs of the times unmasking the new idealism. Part 2: Shakespeare - a subversive dialectic Eliot on Milton - an ideology masked Blake's witness - keeping the divine vision in time of trouble progress and reaction in the age of revolution - Wordsworth, Shelley and Burke Matthew Arnold - culture and the established order William Morris - the change beyond the change dislocation and despair - Eliot's view of history literature and appeasement - the thirties. Part 3: Raymond Williams - towards cultural materialism whose side is Marx on? - E.P.Thompson versus Louis Althusser.

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Arts and Humanities