{"product_id":"understanding-richard-hoggart-isbn-9781405194945","title":"Understanding Richard Hoggart","description":"\u003ci\u003eAwarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media \u0026amp; Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRe-examines the reputation of one of the ‘inventors’ of Cultural Studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and determine its current relevance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles within academia\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social history to bear on this figure whose interests spread across disciplines, to create a text which blends many threads into a coherent whole\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Foreword viii  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Literature, Language, and Politics 16\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Uses of Literature 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoggart in Context: Post-war Britain and the Leavises 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Language of ‘Theory’ 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Common Reader 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocratic Criticism 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Politics of Autobiography 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Studies and Autobiography 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneric Conventions 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresenting Working-Class Lives 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituating the Critic 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Working-Class Intellectuals and Democratic Scholarship 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScholarship Boy 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversity Adult Education and the Varieties of Learning 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Grammar School and Working-Class Education 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Working-Class Intellectuals' and the 'Great Tradition' 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Cultural Studies and the Uses of History 94\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and Cultural Studies 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocating Richard Hoggart 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Hoggart and the Emergence of Social History 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorians and Richard Hoggart 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Nostalgia', 'Romanticism', and 'Sentimentality': Recuperating Hoggart 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Media, Culture, and Society 134\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe BBC and Society 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting and Pilkington 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversity, Authority, and Quality 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Limits and Possibilities of Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Policy, Pedagogy, and Intellectuals 181\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn International Servant 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Idea of University Adult Education 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of the Intellectual 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 209\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMichael Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of  Essex, UK. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eMediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e (with Guy Redden, 2011), \u003ci\u003eRichard Hoggart: Culture \u0026amp; Critique\u003c\/i\u003e (with Mary Eagleton, 2011), and \u003ci\u003eNarrating Media History\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-century British Literature, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), USA. His \u003ci\u003eOrwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2007. His research interests include working-class culture, the public house, and Englishness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn K. Walton\u003c\/b\u003e is IKERBASQUE Research Professor, Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He edits the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Tourism History\u003c\/i\u003e, and his most recent book, with Keith Hanley, is \u003ci\u003eConstructing Cultural Tourism: John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003c\/p\u003e  Richard Hoggart is regarded as one of the ‘inventors’ of Cultural Studies. His work traversed academic and social boundaries. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThe authors use new archival sources to reevaluate Hoggart's intellectual and ethical influence, arguing that most attacks on his positions have been misplaced and even malevolent, and urging his importance for today’s world. Chapters address Hoggart’s contradictory and restless relationship with academic history; his uneasy but fruitful relationship with the idea of the ‘working-class intellectual’; his engagement with policy related work inside and outside the academy; his adaptation of methods of literary analysis and the political implications of his own style; and the politics of autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is an engaging, informative and combative work. It is exactly what it says, a ‘critical introduction’ that moves way beyond plain description of Hoggart’s life and works, showing the relevance (but also, sometimes, the limitations) of his work and constantly contextualizing it within debates in both Cultural Studies and the wider political field. It is extremely well rooted in the various relevant literatures but also adds much knowledge from new sources, particularly those contained in the Hoggart Archive. In every sense, it is a good advert for, and defence of, studying the Humanities.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e- Dave Russell, Leeds Metropolitan University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e“A fascinating and insightful analysis of a leading public intellectual, obsessive auto-biographer, founder of a new academic discipline and original cultural critic.” - \u003ci\u003eJames Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The authors of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Richard Hoggart\u003c\/i\u003e highlight, with rigor and respect, the continuing relevance of Hoggart's work to anyone with an interest in how the cultural landscape at once shapes, and is shaped by, our individual habits.\" - \u003ci\u003eLynsey Hanley, journalist and author of 'Estates: an Intimate History'\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990432661733,"sku":"NP9781405194945","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405194945.jpg?v=1761787804","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/understanding-richard-hoggart-isbn-9781405194945","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}