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Informationen zum Autor Richard E. Lee Klappentext "Richard E. Lee's tome is an ambitious grand narrative which places the emergence and expansion of cultural studies within the vast, world-historical context of crisis and transformation of the intellectual structures through which we know and live in the world today. A compelling read."--Ien Ang, author of "On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West" Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive social history of the cultural studies movement. Tracing British literary criticism from the French Revolution through the 1960s! this book describes how cultural studies in its infancy recombined the elite literary critical tradition with the First New Left's concerns for history and popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One: From Category to Institution 1. The Politics of Culture I: Limits of Possibilities, 1945–1968 11 2. The Politics of Culture II: Tensions of Continuity, 1790–1968 35 Part Two: From Alliance to Bandwagon 3. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies I 73 4. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies II 108 5. A Rose by Any Other Name? The Wide World and Many Modes of Cultural Studies 140 Part Three: From Resistance to Transition 6. Conjunctural Knowledge I: Structures of Order, 1945–1968 173 7. Conjunctural Knowledge II: Patters of Disarray, 1968 and After 192 8. The Near Future of the Long Term: A Bricoleur's World 206 Notes 215 Works Cited 237 Index 267
