John Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism (1999, winner of the University of Cape Town Book Award 2000) and Founding Editor of the South African Journal, Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies.

• Preface. Acknowledgements.Part I: Culture Wars (1954-1961):.Introduction.1. Culture is Ordinary (1958).2. Film and The Dramatic Tradition (1954).3. The Masses (1958).4. Individuals and Societies (1961):.Part II: Countering The Canon (1962-71):.Introduction.5. Tragedy and Revolution (1966).6. Literature and Rural Society (1967).7. Thomas Hardy and The English Novel (1970).8. Orwell (1971).Part III: Theory and Representation (1972-80):.Introduction.9. Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory (1973).10. Television and Representation (1974).11. Language as Sociality (1977).12. The Writer: Commitment and Alignment (1980).Part IV: Cultural Materialism in Action (1978-1988):.Introduction.13. The Bloomsbury Fraction (1978).14. Crisis in English Studies (1981).15. Writing, Speech and The "Classical" (1984).16. Language and The Avant-Garde (1986).Works Cited.Index.

John Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism (1999, winner of the University of Cape Town Book Award 2000) and Founding Editor of the South African Journal, Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies.

• Preface. Acknowledgements.Part I: Culture Wars (1954-1961):.Introduction.1. Culture is Ordinary (1958).2. Film and The Dramatic Tradition (1954).3. The Masses (1958).4. Individuals and Societies (1961):.Part II: Countering The Canon (1962-71):.Introduction.5. Tragedy and Revolution (1966).6. Literature and Rural Society (1967).7. Thomas Hardy and The English Novel (1970).8. Orwell (1971).Part III: Theory and Representation (1972-80):.Introduction.9. Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory (1973).10. Television and Representation (1974).11. Language as Sociality (1977).12. The Writer: Commitment and Alignment (1980).Part IV: Cultural Materialism in Action (1978-1988):.Introduction.13. The Bloomsbury Fraction (1978).14. Crisis in English Studies (1981).15. Writing, Speech and The "Classical" (1984).16. Language and The Avant-Garde (1986).Works Cited.Index.