Title: Richard Hoggart and cultural studies /
Authors: Owen, Susan J.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Hoggart, Richard, Influence.; Hoggart, Richard, Influence.; Culture Philosophy; Criticism Great Britain History; Criticism; Culture Philosophy.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Intellectual life; Great Britain Intellectual life
Abstract: This collection of essays re-evaluates Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to Cultural Studies. Hoggart is one of the leading cultural commentators of the last sixty years. His The Uses of Literacy (1957) marked a watershed in public perception of culture and class and shifted academic parameters. He was a leading defence witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. He was one of the first literary critics to take the working class seriously, and founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. These essays, by both leading and emerging cultural scholars, examine Hoggart's legacy to Cultural Studies, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his enduring importance.
Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; S. Owen -- Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy and the Cultural Turn; S. Hall -- Richard Hoggart: Literary Criticism and Cultural decline in 20th-Century Britain; S. Collini -- Richard Hoggart, Cultural Studies and the Demands of the Present; L. Grossberg -- Richard Hoggart and the Way We Live Now; J. McGuigan -- Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Influence of Cultural Studies; R.E. Lee -- From the Juke-Box Boys to Revolting Students: Richard Hoggart and the Study of British Youth Culture; D. Fowler -- ₃Them₄ and ₃Us₄; R.J.C. Young -- Repurposing Literacy: The Uses of Richard Hoggart for Creative Education; J. Hartley -- Critical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, and the English School Curriculum in Australia; G. Turner -- The Importance of Being Ordinary; M. Gregg -- The Antipodean Uses of Literacy; M. Gibson -- Relativism and Reaction: Richard Hoggart and Conservatism; C. Ellis -- The Use and Value of Literacy: Richard Hoggart, Aesthetic Standards and the Commodification of Working-Class Culture; B. Hughes -- Hoggart and Women; S. Owen -- Index.