biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921–88)
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| biography:
| Social historian, critic, and novelist, born in Pandy, Monmouthshire, SE Wales, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1961, and professor of drama (1974–83). He wrote Culture and Society (1958), which established his reputation as a cultural historian, followed by The Long Revolution (1961) and Marxism and Literature (1977), amongst others. He was active in New Left intellectual movements, producing the May Day Manifesto (1968), and was increasingly identified with Welsh nationalism in his novels such as Border Country (1960), The Fight for Manod (1979), and Loyalties (1985). |
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