Michael Bailey, Ben Clarke, John K. Walton

Gebundenes Buch

Understanding Richard Hoggart

A Pedagogy of Hope

Beschreibung

Richard Hoggart is regarded as one of the 'inventors' of Cultural Studies. His work traversed academic and social boundaries. 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.

The authors use new archival sources to reevaluate Hoggart's intellectual and ethical influence, arguing that most attacks on his positions have been misplaced and even malevolent, and urging his importance for today's world. Chapters address Hoggart's contradictory and restless relationship with academic history; his uneasy but fruitful relationship with the idea of the 'working-class intellectual'; his engagement with policy related work inside and outside the academy; his adaptation of methods of literary analysis and the political implications of his own style; and the politics of autobiography.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781405193023
• ISBN-10: 1405193026
• Artikelnr.: 34160089

Rezensionen

"This is an engaging, informative and combative work. It is exactly what it says, a 'critical introduction' that moves way beyond plain description of Hoggart's life and works, showing the relevance (but also, sometimes, the limitations) of his work and constantly contextualizing it within debates in both Cultural Studies and the wider political field. It is extremely well rooted in the various relevant literatures but also adds much knowledge from new sources, particularly those contained in the Hoggart Archive. In every sense, it is a good advert for, and defence of, studying the Humanities." -- Dave Russell, Leeds Metropolitan University

"A fascinating and insightful analysis of a leading public intellectual, obsessive auto-biographer, founder of a new academic discipline and original cultural critic." -- James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London

"The authors of Understanding Richard Hoggart highlight, with rigor and respect, the continuing relevance of Hoggart's work to anyone with an interest in how the cultural landscape at once shapes, and is shaped by, our individual habits." -- Lynsey Hanley, journalist and author of 'Estates: an Intimate History'