A Study on Raymond Williams and the Relationship between Postwar British Literature and Culture, Society, and Labour

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I have been trying to elucidate the relationship between twentieth-century British literature and culture in terms of culture, society and labour. Culture including literature can be conceived of as the response to the change of society. Therefore, I have dealt not only with literary texts but also with history and social criticism. Especially, I focus on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Christopher Caudwell, Richard Hoggart, and Raymond Williams. I have traced the trajectory of the making of Williams's literary criticism and cultural theory by closely analyzing his novels such as _Second Generation_ and _Loyalties_, which have rarely been discussed, as well as _Culture and Society_ and _The Long Revolution_. I have also analyzed important articles in _Universities and Left Review_ and other significant magazines in the late 1950s. I published a co-authored book entitled _Keywords for Our Culture and Society_ following Raymond Williams's method of historical semantics.