Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies

by S. Owen

Overview

In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies. They examine Hoggart's legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his importance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230545458
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/14/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

STEFAN COLLINI is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at Cambridge University, UK CHARLIE ELLIS is a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK DAVID FOWLER teaches Modern British History and Economic History at The University of Cambridge, UK MARK GIBSON is Chair of the Graduate Communications and Media Studies Program in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, Australia MELISSA GREGG is an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia LAWRENCE GROSSBERG is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA STUART HALL is Professor Emeritus at the Open University, UK JOHN HARTLEY is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, and Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, at Queensland University of Technology in Australia BILL HUGHES is completing his PhD at the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. RICHARD E. LEE is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, USA JIM MCGUIGAN is Professor of Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK GRAEME TURNER is an ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia ROBERT J.C. YOUNG is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA

Table of 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 'Them' and 'Us'; 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