| Description |
1 online resource (231 pages) |
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1 Literature, Language, and Politics; The Uses of Literature; Hoggart in Context: Post-war Britain and the Leavises; The Language of 'Theory'; The Common Reader; Democratic Criticism; 2 The Politics of Autobiography; Cultural Studies and Autobiography; Generic Conventions; Representing Working-Class Lives; Situating the Critic; 3 Working-Class Intellectuals and Democratic Scholarship; Scholarship Boy; University Adult Education and the Varieties of Learning |
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The Grammar School and Working-Class Education 'Working-Class Intellectuals' and the 'Great Tradition'; 4 Cultural Studies and the Uses of History; History and Cultural Studies; Locating Richard Hoggart; Richard Hoggart and the Emergence of Social History; Historians and Richard Hoggart; 'Nostalgia', 'Romanticism', and 'Sentimentality': Recuperating Hoggart; 5 Media, Culture, and Society; The BBC and Society; The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting and Pilkington; Diversity, Authority, and Quality; The Limits and Possibilities of Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century |
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6 Policy, Pedagogy, and Intellectuals; An International Servant; The Idea of University Adult Education; The Role of the Intellectual; Index |
| Summary |
With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation. Re-examines the reputation of one of the 'inventors' of Cultural Studies. Uses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and determine its current relevance. Addresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles within academia. Brings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social history |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hoggart, Richard, 1918-2014.
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| SUBJECT |
Hoggart, Richard, 1918-2014 fast |
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Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Critics
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Intellectuals
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clarke, Ben
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Walton, John K
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| ISBN |
9781444346572 |
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1444346571 |
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9781444346541 |
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1444346547 |
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9781405193023 |
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1405193026 |
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