|  | Bailey, Michael / Clarke, Ben / Walton, John K.
Understanding Richard Hoggart
A Pedagogy of Hope
 1. Edition December 2011
71.90 Euro
2011. 232 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4051-9302-3 - John Wiley & Sons
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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.
From the contents
Foreword viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
1 Literature, Language, and Politics 16
The Uses of Literature 18
Hoggart in Context: Post-war Britain and the Leavises 21
The Language of 'Theory' 30
The Common Reader 34
Democratic Criticism 38
2 The Politics of Autobiography 49
Cultural Studies and Autobiography 51
Generic Conventions 54
Representing Working-Class Lives 59
Situating the Critic 66
3 Working-Class Intellectuals and Democratic Scholarship 73
Scholarship Boy 74
University Adult Education and the Varieties of Learning 76
The Grammar School and Working-Class Education 79
'Working-Class Intellectuals' and the 'Great Tradition' 85
4 Cultural Studies and the Uses of History 94
History and Cultural Studies 94
Locating Richard Hoggart 96
Richard Hoggart and the Emergence of Social History 102
Historians and Richard Hoggart 119
'Nostalgia', 'Romanticism', and 'Sentimentality': Recuperating Hoggart 122
5 Media, Culture, and Society 134
The BBC and Society 135
The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting and Pilkington 138
Diversity, Authority, and Quality 145
The Limits and Possibilities of Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century 154
6 Policy, Pedagogy, and Intellectuals 181
An International Servant 183
The Idea of University Adult Education 189
The Role of the Intellectual 194
Index 209
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