E. P. Thompson and radical Romanticism.(The Making of the English Working Class)(Critical essay)

From: Wordsworth Circle | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

As I have reread The Making of the English Working Class and numerous other texts by Thompson, I find myself thinking in terms of blindness and insight, not in the absolute deconstructive binaries employed by Paul de Man, but rather to signify the inescapable process in which the insights we manage to gain are purchased at the price of being blind to other aspects of reality they do not permit us to see. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class is incalculably rich in narrative, with vivid, novelistic characterization and description, but, as many have noted, it is poor ...

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