Understanding Richard Hoggart : a Pedagogy of Hope.

• Main Author: Bailey, Michael
• Other Authors: Clarke, Ben, Walton, John K.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Subjects: 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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.