The Matter of Britain
A L Morton's Essays in a Living Culture
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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, 166pp.
These literary and historical essays, on themes ranging from the Arthurian Cycle to the Waste Land, form a series of studies in the living culture of Britain, showing how changing economic and social relations have been reflected and portrayed in English literature. The book begins with a fascinating account of how the growth and decay of feudal society was expressed in the medieval legend of King Arthur, and follows through with Shakespeare, Bacon, the crop of English Utopias beginning with Saint Thomas More, the pamphlets of the Levellers, the prophetic writings of William Blake, the Brontes, Charles Kingsley and Christian Socialism, Ruskin, E M Forster and A Passage to India, and finally T S Eliot.
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The book is in very good condition, with clean pages and secure binding. There is light tanning to the dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.
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£25.00
