Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling

Raymond Williams is one of the most importantanglophonecultural critics of the twentieth century. Inadistinguished career, his readings of the British literary canon offered radical new ways oflooking atBritish society as it developed from the Romantic periodinto the modern age. Central to thisreevaluationwas the idea of 'structures of feeling',which Williamsshapedin order toexplain the ways in which members of societies felt about one another, and how theychanged over time. The authorsof the presentvolume 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,psychologyand social geography.