Bücher von Simon During

This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should thereforere-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos ofrefusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville,Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow.

An introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies.