The Ideology of the Text
- Open University Press, 1990
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This book represents a provocative attack on current critical Theories through timely and vigorous reassertion of a historically-grounded criticism. Preface, Signs of the Time, Unmasking the New Idealism, Shakespeare: A Subversive Dialectic, Eliot on Milton: An Ideology Masked, Blake's Witness: Keeping the Divine Vision in Time of Trouble, Progress and Reaction in the Age of Revolution: Wordsworth and Shelley and Burke, Matthew Arnold: Culture and the Established Order, William Morris: The Change Beyond the Change, Dislocation and Despair: Eliot's View of History, Literature and Appeasement, Raymond Williams: Towards Cultural Materialism, E.P. Thompson Versus Louis Althusser: Whose Side is Marx On?, Bibliography, Index.