Over twenty-five years ago, Raymond Williams’s Keywords set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’s classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication.

• Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists



• Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society



• Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years



• Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing



• New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere

New Keywords is ideal reading for students on lower and upper division courses in cultural studies, communication, media studies, mass communication, literary theory, American Studies, anthropology and sociology.

This accessible reference work is also essential reading for teachers, public intellectuals, and the general reader interested in contemporary issues about culture, society and language.

Publication date: March 2005 (UK & RoW) ~ April 2005 (US & Canada)

9780631225690 ~ paperback ~ £16.99 / $29.95

9780631225683 ~ hardcover ~ £60.00 / $64.95

246 x 171 mm ~ 456 pages

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