Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation [Paperback]

Dorothy Thompson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0860916502 | ISBN-13: 978-0860916505 | Publication Date: August 1993

This book brings together Dorothy Thompson's most important essays on English social history, written over the last 25 years, many previously unpublished. Thompson analyzes the Chartist movement, not simply as a political programme, however significant, but as the mass phenomenon which offers the focus for an "elucidation of the concept of class". Thompson is also concerned with Queen Victoria: how did a woman holding the highest office in the land affect British women and was it a factor in the non-republican stance of radical politics of the time? The essays are complemented by an introduction in which Dorothy Thompson reflects on the politics of the period in which she wrote them, on her own political involvements and on the relationship of her work as a historian to that of her husband, E.P. Thompson. The book should make a useful introductory text for students of history. It includes Thompson's essays on women's activism in early radical politics and 19th century popular politics. The book should also attract a wide general readership.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Williams is the Western thinker who, along with Antonio Gramsci, has done most to enlarge our understanding of the political complexities of culture." -- Village Voice "The left's foremost cultural historian and critic... an acute and perceptive political commentator." -- Comment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and after the war taught for many years as an adult education tutor. In 1961 he became a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in English. He was Professor of Drama at Cambridge from 1974 until his retirement in 1983. Raymond Williams died in January 1988. His many books include Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution (1961), Modern Tragedy (1966), The Country and the City (1973), Marxism and Literature (1977), Politics and Letters (1979), Resources of Hope(1989), Towards 2000 (1983), The Politics of Modernism, and several novels --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Verso Books (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0860916502
• ISBN-13: 978-0860916505
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,327,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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