Inglis Richard Hoggart

Virtue and Reward
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7237-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainlythe most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of thepast sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy,provided for thousands of unsung working-class readers a whollyrecognisable and tender account of their own coming-to-maturity andof the preciousness and the hardships of the life of the poor inpre-World War II Britain.
But he was far more than narrator of a neglected class. Hoggart wasalso a public figure of extraordinary energy and eminence. Hedominated the single most important Royal Commission onbroadcasting, and single-handedly he is remembered as clinching forthe defence the publication of Lady Chatterley'sLover, after which he became a leading officer and defender ofthe international agency protecting the culture of the very world,UNESCO.
This is the first biography of this amazing man. It seeks to tietogether in a single narrative life and work, to settle Hoggart inthe great happiness of a fulfilled family life and in theastonishing achievements of his public and professional career,considering each of his books in detail, and following him throughthe long and hard labours of his different public and academicoffices.
Fred Inglis tells this gripping tale of a figure of greatsignificance to anyone who cherishes the stuff of culture, andtells it vividly and directly. It is a tale of a good man withwhich to edify the present, and to teach us of all that nowthreatens our best national (and international) forms ofexpression: our art, our culture, ourselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Inglis, Fred

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Prologue The Condition of England
Chapter 1 The Stones of Leeds
Chapter 2 Best Boy: a Grammar School Education
Chapter 3 A Civic Education: the University of Leeds
Chapter 4 A Military Education in 'an ingenious and civilian army'
Chapter 5 The Education of the People
Chapter 6 Best of Friends: the Book, the Centre and the Moral Community
Chapter 7 Hoggart-watching: Arguments with Marxism, Aspects of World Government
Chapter 8 Goldsmiths' and Gold Standards
Chapter 9 Tiring the Sun
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield. He has frequently written for The Nation, the New Statesman and The Independent, and contributes regularly to BBC Radio.