Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & CulturalStudiesWith the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timelyreevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, acritical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation.* Re-examines the reputation of one of the'inventors' of Cultural Studies* Uses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart'scontribution and influence, set his work in context, and determineits current relevance* Addresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart,delineating long-term ideological battles within academia* Brings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social historyto bear on this figure whose interests spread across disciplines,to create a text which blends many threads into a coherentwhole

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 Scholarship73Scholarship 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': RecuperatingHoggart 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-FirstCentury 1546 Policy, Pedagogy, and Intellectuals 181An International Servant 183The Idea of University Adult Education 189The Role of the Intellectual 194Index 209