Key Words Journal

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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;'>Issue 7</span>Issue 7
The Century's Wide Margin

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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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Issue 6</span>Issue 6
Seeing Ourselves in History

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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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Issue 5</span>Issue 5
Working Spaces, Working Lives

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

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Issue 4</span>Issue 4
Modernism

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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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Issue 3 </span>Issue 3
Futures

Contents:
Editorial - Jeff Wallace

Futures
Feminist Futures - Lynne Segal

Information Society Theory as Ideology: a Critique - Nicholas Garnham

Inequality and the Information Age: the Recent Work of Manuel Castells - John Downey

Post-Theory, Literature, Marxism - Andy Mousley

Keywords
'Gender' - Deborah Cameron

Articles
'The gorgeous contributions of India': Ruskin, Owen Jones and Oriental Art - Simon Dentith

Modernism and the Suffragette Prison Narratives - Howard Finn

The Cultural Theory of Bourdieu and Williams -
Bridget Fowler

Reviews
Sean Homer, Calvin Taylor, Michael Pickering,
Jim McGuigan


Endpiece: What's in a Name? - Rod Jones

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Issue 2</span>Issue 2
Ecocriticism

Contents:
Editorial - Jeff Wallace

Articles
Reading Nostalgia: Histories and Fictions of the Struggling Unemployed - Jago Morrison

'The problem is always one of method...': Cultural Materialism, Political Economy and Cultural Studies - Paul Jones

Reinventing England - Declan Kiberd

Keywords
'Work Provider' - Deborah Cameron

Ecocriticism
Wordsworthian and Darwinian Excursions: Ecology, Colonialism and Cultural Materialist Criticism -
David Amigoni

Raymond Williams and Contemporary Political Ecology -
Hilary Wainwright

Hippies, Liberals, and the Ecocritical Sublime -
Gerry Smyth

BSE Stories - Richard Kerridge

Conference Reports
John Parham, Ross Dawson, Sean Homer

Reviews
Jim McGuigan, John Tomlinson, Chris Bilton

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Issue 1</span>Issue 1

Contents:
Editorial - Jeff Wallace

Raymond Williams's Time - Steven Connor

Raymond Williams, Communities and Universities -
Terry Eagleton

Dreaming the Dictionary: Keywords and Corpus Linguistics - Deborah Cameron

Sex, Race and Meat - Cultural Studies, Cultural Materialism and the End of Life as We Know It - Gargi Bhattacharyya

Problems in Ecocriticism and the Novel - Dominic Head

Sexual Emergenc(i)es: Cultural Theories and Contemporary Sexual Politics - Richard Johnson

Reviews
Jeff Wallace, Helen Davis, Martin Conboy, Maggie Wykes, Martyn Lee

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