Understanding Richard Hoggart: a pedagogy of hope

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 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 to bear on this figure whose interests spread across disciplines, to create a text which blends many threads into a coherent whole INDICE: Foreword viiiAcknowledgements xIntroduction 11 Literature, Language, and Politics 16The Uses of Literature 18Hoggart in Context: Post-war Britain and the Leavises 21The Language of Theory’ 30The Common Reader 34Democratic Criticism 382 The Politics of Autobiography 49Cultural Studies and Autobiography 51Generic Conventions 54Representing Working-Class Lives 59Situating the Critic 663 Working-Class Intellectuals and Democratic Scholarship 73Scholarship Boy 74University Adult Education and the Varieties of Learning 76The Grammar School and Working-Class Education 79'Working-Class Intellectuals' and the 'Great Tradition' 854 Cultural Studies and the Uses of History 94History and Cultural Studies 94Locating Richard Hoggart 96Richard Hoggart and the Emergence of Social History 102Historians and Richard Hoggart 119'Nostalgia', 'Romanticism', and 'Sentimentality': Recuperating Hoggart 1225 Media, Culture, and Society 134The BBC and Society 135The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting and Pilkington 138Diversity, Authority, and Quality 145The Limits and Possibilities of Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century 1546 Policy, Pedagogy, and Intellectuals 181An International Servant 183The Idea of University Adult Education 189TheRole of the Intellectual 194Index 209

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-4657-2
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 232
• Fecha Publicación: 27/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés