Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling

Examines the lasting impact of Welsh writer Raymond Williams' concept of “structures of feeling."

Raymond Williams is one of the most important anglophone cultural critics of the twentieth century. In a distinguished career, his readings of the British literary canon offered radical new ways of looking at British society as it developed from the Romantic period into the modern age. Central to this reevaluation was the idea of “structures of feeling,” which Williams shaped in order to explain the ways in which members of societies felt about one another and how they changed over time. Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling examines the value and impact of his work on ongoing contemporary debates in areas such as anthropology, economics, law, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, and social geography.

Louise Braddock is an independent scholar and former director of research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. Trained as a psychiatrist, she now writes on philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Niall Gildea is lecturer in English literature at Edge Hill University. He is the author of Jacques Derrida’s Cambridge Affair: Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality.