Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory,
Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist
and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously
and inclusively as "structures of feeling." In this major work,
Williams applies himself to the problem of modernism. Rejecting
stereotypes and simplifications, he is especially preoccupied with
the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary socialist
politics and the artistic avant-garde. Judiciously assessing the
strengths and weaknesses of the modernist project, Williams shifts
the framework of discussion from merely formal analysis of artistic
techniques to one which grounds these cultural expressions in
particular social formations. Animating the whole book is the
question which Williams poses and brings us significantly closer to
answering: namely, what does it mean to develop a cultural analysis
that goes "beyond the modern" and yet avoids the trap of
postmodernism's "new conformism"?
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