Fred Inglis

Richard Hoggart (eBook, ePUB)

Virtue and Reward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy, provided for thousands of unsung working-class readers a wholly recognisable and tender account of their own coming-to-maturity and of the preciousness and the hardships of the life of the poor in pre-World War II Britain. But he was far more than narrator of a neglected class. Hoggart was also a public figure of extraordinary energy and eminence. He dominated the single most important Royal Commission on broadcasting, and single-handedly he is remembered as clinching for the defence the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, after which he became a leading officer and defender of the international agency protecting the culture of the very world, UNESCO. This is the first biography of this amazing man. It seeks to tie together in a single narrative life and work, to settle Hoggart in the great happiness of a fulfilled family life and in the astonishing achievements of his public and professional career, considering each of his books in detail, and following him through the long and hard labours of his different public and academic offices. Fred Inglis tells this gripping tale of a figure of great significance to anyone who cherishes the stuff of culture, and tells it vividly and directly. It is a tale of a good man with which to edify the present, and to teach us of all that now threatens our best national (and international) forms of expression: our art, our culture, ourselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745672373
• Artikelnr.: 40205054

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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