Understanding Richard Hoggart

Michael Bailey is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of  Essex, UK. He is the editor of Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century (with Guy Redden, 2011), Richard Hoggart: Culture & Critique (with Mary Eagleton, 2011), and Narrating Media History (2008). Ben Clarke is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-century British Literature, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), USA. His Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values, appeared in 2007. His research interests include working-class culture, the public house, and Englishness.John K. Walton is IKERBASQUE Research Professor, Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He edits the Journal of Tourism History, and his most recent book, with Keith Hanley, is Constructing Cultural Tourism: John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze (2010).

• Foreword viii Acknowledgements 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 189The Role of the Intellectual 194Index 209