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The Country and the city

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The Country and the City is a book of cultural analysis by which was first published in 1973.The Country and the CityAuthorRaymond WilliamsLanguageEnglishGenreCultural studiesPublisherChatto and Windus & Spokesman BooksPublication date1973 
Coming from the Welsh border, a village in the , Raymond Williams found that the images of rural life taught at  did not match what he had seen. As an academic at Cambridge, he studied and examined the contradiction, along with the contrasting idea of the city, which in the U.K. has never been separate from the countryside. Rural life without cities had existed in other parts of the world, but not for a very long time in Britain.Chapter 2, A Problem of Perspective, examines the idea that an ancient continuous rural life has recently ended. Authors generally remember this timeless order existing in their own childhood. But look at writers from the time of their childhood, and they consider that the timeless order has already vanished, having still existed in the older writer's childhood. He gives a chain of examples, going back as far as  in 1516.Urban life is also examined - see in particular chapter 19, Cities of Darkness and of Light