Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling
Editor(s) Niall Gildea,Louise Braddock
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
- July 2026 · 376 pages ·216x138mm
- · Paperback - 9781837723966
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Raymond Williams is one of the most important anglophone cultural critics of the twentieth century. In a distinguished career, his readings of the British literary canon offered radical new ways of looking at British society as it developed from the Romantic period into the modern age. Central to this reevaluation was the idea of ‘structures of feeling’, which Williams shaped in order to explain the ways in which members of societies felt about one another, and how they changed over time. The authors of the present volume 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, psychology and social geography.
Louise Braddock and Niall Gildea, ‘Introduction’
SECTION 1: Structures of Feeling in Context
Christopher Newfield, ‘Raymond Williams’s Subtheory of Cultural Revolution’
Michael Rustin, ‘Structures of Feeling and Psychoanalysis’
Keir Martin, ‘Structures of Feeling and Patterns of Culture: Raymond Williams, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis’
Katie Fleming, ‘Structures of Feeling and Affect Theory’
SECTION 2: Structures of Feeling in Practice
Henrique Carvalho, ‘Patterns of Blaming and Structures of Feeling: Thinking Culturally about Criminalization’
John Higgins, ‘Talking about My Generation: Student Protests and Structures of Feeling in South Africa’
Eleanor Jupp, ‘Structures of Feeling and Affective Geographies of the UK Welfare State’
Louise Gyler, ‘The Making of Witches and Monsters: Woman in the Australian Cultural Landscape’
SECTION 3: Structures of Feeling and Cultural Expression
Louise Braddock, ‘Structures of Feeling: A Philosophical Interpretation’
Ellie Roberts, ‘The Individual in Culture: The Creative Work of the Artist and the Psychoanalyst’
Alex Wylie, ‘Saying the Unsayable: Structures of Feeling and Contemporary Poetry’
Terry Eagleton, ‘Afterword: Are Structures of Feeling an Illusion?’
Author(s): Niall Gildea
Niall Gildea is Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University. He is the author of Jacques Derrida’s Cambridge Affair: Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality (2019).Author(s): Louise Braddock
Louise Braddock is an independent scholar, formerly Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. Trained as a psychiatrist, she later taught philosophy, and now writes on philosophy and psychoanalysis.