Understanding Richard Hoggart : a Pedagogy of Hope.

Bailey, Michael.

Understanding Richard Hoggart : a Pedagogy of Hope. - Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011. - 1 online resource (231 pages)

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. 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. 6 Policy, Pedagogy, and IntellectualsAn International Servant; The Idea of University Adult Education; The Role of the Intellectual; Index.

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 & lsquo;inventors & rsquo; of Cultural StudiesUses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and determine its current relevanceAddresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles within academiaBrings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social history.

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Hoggart, Richard, 1918-2014.
Hoggart, Richard, 1918-2014.


Critics--Great Britain--Biography.
Intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.
Hoggart, Richard, 1918-
Social Science.
Literature.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Critics.
Intellectuals.


Great Britain.


Electronic books.
Biography.

PR55.H6 B35 2011

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