Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays

William's method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year period in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship. Aside from his more directly theoretical texts, however, case-studies of theatrical naturalism, the Bloomsbury group, advertising, science fiction, and the Welsh novel are also included as illustrations of the method at work. Finally, Williams's identity as an active socialist rather than simply an academic, is captured by two unambiguously political pieces on the past, present and future of Marxism.

Softcover. English. Verso Books. 1997. ISBN: 9781859841136. 277 pp. Fair, pencilled inscription inside. Book No: 62433