Key Words Journal

About the Journal

Key Words is committed to developing the tradition of cultural materialism derived from the founding analysis of culture and society in the work of Raymond Williams.

The journal provides a forum for radical thought on history and politics, and explores the role of literary, media and cultural forms in the contemporary global era. Each issue addresses a selected theme of relevance to the arts, media, politics and everyday life.

Further details can be found on the Raymond Williams Society website.

<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Raymond Williams in Japan</span>

Raymond Williams in Japan
Key Words 9

Contents:
Editors’ Preface

Signs, Socialism and Ethics: Eagleton on Language
Tony Crowley

Terry Eagleton, Postmodernism and Ireland
Edward Larrissy

Williams and Wittgenstein: Language, Politics and Structure of Feeling - Ben Ware

Border Country: Then and Now - Simon Dentith

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Raymond Williams in Japan - Essays by contemporary Japanese critics, edited and introduced by Daniel G. Williams

Guest Editor’s Introduction - Daniel Williams

Soseki Natsume, Raymond Williams and the Geography of ‘Culture’ - Shintaro Kono

Translation and Interpretation: Raymond Williams and the Uses of Action - Takashi Onuki

‘To Feel the Connections’: Collectivity and Dialectic in Raymond Williams’s Loyalties - Yasuhiro Kondo

The ‘Far West’ after Industrialization: Gwyn Thomas, Ishimure Michiko and Raymond Williams - Yuzo Yamada

‘A Narrative of Unsolved Cases’: A Reading of The Fight for Manod - Yasuo Kawabata

Afterword: Found in Translation - Dai Smith

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Debate: Dai Smith responds to Lucas and Matthews

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ISBN: 978 0 9531503-6-6

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Labouring-Class Writing</span>

Labouring-Class Writing
Key Words 8

Contents:
Editors' Preface

Guest Editors' Introduction: Retrieval and Beyond: Labouring-Class Writing - Tim Burke and John Goodridge

Brute Strength: Labouring-Class Studies and Animal Studies - Donna Landry

Close Reading Yearsley - David Fairer

Not So Lowly Bards: Working-Class Women Poets and Middle-Class Expectations - Florence Boos

Genre Matters: Attending to Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poetry - William J. Christmas

Ecocriticism - Anne Milne

The Rise of Robert Bloomfield - Scott McEathron

The Foresters: Alexander Wilson's Transatlantic Labouring-Class Nature Poetry - Bridget Keegan

'Tracing the Ramifications of the Democratic Principle': Literary Criticism and Theory in the Chartist Circular - Mike Sanders

Labour History by Other Means - Jonathan Rose

Graphic Bric-a-brac: Comic Visual Culture and the Study of Early Victorian Lower-Class Urban Culture - Brian Maidment

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Language and Locale: John Locke, Somerset and Plain Style - Olivia Smith

Institutional Culture as Whiteness: 'a complex argument' - John Higgins

Reviews

Raymond Williams Foundation

Price: £15.00

ISBN: 978 0 95315 03-5-9

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The Century's Wide Margin</span>

The Century's Wide Margin
Key Words 7

Contents:
Editors' Preface

Guest Editor's Introduction:
The Century's Wide Margin - Ben Harker

Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: A Very Modern Victorian - Sheila Rowbotham

On Not Forgetting 'the Importance of Everything Else': Feminism, Modernism and Time and Tide (1920-1939) - Catherine Clay

'Ours Will Be a Dynamic Contribution': the Struggle by Diasporic Artists for a Voice in British Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s - Colin Chambers

Adapting to the Conjuncture: Walter Greenwood, History and Love on the Dole - Ben Harker

Ephemeral Work: Louis MacNeice and the Moment of 'Pure Radio' - Paul Long

'The Better it is Written the Worse it is': Storm Jameson on Popular Fiction and the Political Novel - Kristin Ewins

'Hard as the Metal of my Gun': Communism, Masculinity and John Cornford's Poetry of the Will - Stan Smith

Reviews

The Raymond Williams Foundation (RWF)

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ISBN: 978 0 95315 03-1-1

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Seeing Ourselves in History</span>

Seeing Ourselves in History
Key Words 6

Contents:
Editors' Preface

Culture is Ordinary - Terry Eagleton

Debate: Raymond Williams Novelist? - John Lucas

Debate: 'Other Possible Findings': Raymond Williams, Writer - Sean Matthews

Mis/Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Comparatist Critique of Williams on Orwell - Andrew Milner

Graham Martin: Literature, Liberation and Ideology -
Introduced by Jeff Wallace

Left-Leavisism and After: Graham Martin and Arnold Kettle as Critics of the Novel - Patrick Parrinder

'I chewed up Littererchewer': Literature and Standard English in Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott - Simon Dentith

Aesthetics, Government, Freedom - Tony Bennett

Which Cosmopolitanism? Neoliberalism, the Society of the Spectacle and Democratic Citizenship -
Nick Stevenson

Reviews
Claire Jowitt, John Goodridge, Emanuela Piga

The Raymond Williams Foundation

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ISBN: 978 0 95315 03-0-4

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Working Spaces, Working Lives</span>

Working Spaces, Working Lives
Key Words 5

Contents:
In Memoriam Charles Swann - Terry Eagleton

I. M. Charles Swann, 18 December 1943 - 13 October 2006 - Stan Smith

Introduction - Nicola Wilson

The Representation of the People and Our Mutual Friend - Ruth Livesey

Politicising the Home in Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's This Slavery (1925) and Ellen Wilkinson's Clash (1929) - Nicola Wilson

Gender and Community in 1930s Working-Class Writing - Joseph Pridmore

Raymond Williams, Cultural Materialsim, and the Break-Up of Britain - Hywel Dix

'Committed to paper': Vacated Spaces and Phallogocentrism in Magnus Mills's The Restraint of Beasts - Ian Haywood

Organising Space: Clutter, Storage and Everyday Life - Tracey Potts

An Interview with Richard Hoggart - Sean Matthews

Reviews and Previews

The Raymond Williams Memorial Fund

Price: £15.00

ISBN: 978 1 90551 0-11-5

<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Modernism</span>

Modernism
Key Words 4

Contents:
Editor's Introduction - Michael Coyle

Keywords
'American' - Deborah Cameron
'Scab' - Stephanie A. Smith
'Cover Song' - Michael Coyle

Articles
Raymond Williams, Keywords and Deconstruction -
John Higgins

Defining Cultural Democracy: Modernism and Universal Individualism - Melba Cuddy-Keane

Fundamentals of Cultural Studies: Extrapolations from Selected Texts of Raymond Williams - Epiphanio San Juan, Jr.

The Fight Over Culture and Society: Raymond Williams and the Cambridge School of Criticism - Mauro Pala

The Self-Loathing Class: Williams, Ishiguro and Barbara Ehrenreich on Service - Lisa Fluet

Raymond Williams, Ezra Pound and the Heritage of John Ruskin
Burton Hatlen

Reviews
Diana Wallace, Aaron Jaffe, Alan Munton, Michael Coyle

About the Authors

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ISBN: 978 0 95315 03-4-2

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