1st Edition
A Measured Life The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual
Edited By Richard Hoggart
Copyright 1994
753 Pages
by
Routledge
753 Pages
by
Routledge
754 Pages
by
Routledge
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Richard Hoggart's book, The Uses of Literacy, established his reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of English working-class life. This large volume vividly depicts his origins in that setting. It is an autobiographical account combining Hoggart's three masterful works, A Local Habitation, A Sort of Clowning, and An Imagined Life, in which he details his life from 1918... Read more
Introduction to the American Edition, A Local Habitation, Acknowledgments, Preface, Chapter 1 ST JAMES’S, Chapter 2 POTTENEWTON, Chapter 3 NEWPORT STREET, Chapter 4 HUNSLET, HOLBECK AND BEYOND, Chapter 5 INTERLUDE : LEEDS AT LARGE, Chapter 6 JACK LANE, Chapter 7 COCKBURN, Chapter 8 UNIVERSITY, INDEX, A Sort of Clowning, Acknowledgments, Preface, PART ONE: THE WAR YEARS, 1 Oswestry to the Otranto 1940—2, 2 North Africa and Pantelleria 1942—3, 3 Naples 1943—6, PART TWO: WANDERING TEACHER, 4 Redcar and Marske 1946—9, 5 Hull: Settings and Settling In 1949—59, 6 Teaching-and-Writing The 1950s, 7 Interlude — USA 1956—7, PART THREE: TAKING STOCK, 8 ‘There’s no Vocabulary’: on Family Life, 9 A Shape Proper to Itself?: On Writing a ‘Life and Times’, Index, An Imagined Life, Acknowledgments, Preface, PART ONE: PROVINCIAL AND NATIONAL: THE 1960s, 1 The Delta: Going Public, 2 Mild Midlands: Leicester, 1959—64, 3 Picked Up By the Tide: Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Pilkington Report, 1960—2, 4 Great Hopes from Birmingham, 1962—70, 5 Expansion and Permissiveness: The University Liberated?, PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL LIFE AND BACK TO BRITAIN: THE 1970s AND 1980s, 6 A World Apart: UNESCO, 1970—5, 7 The Great Tradition Revisited: Goldsmiths’, 1976—84, 8 Culture, Communications, Censorship Revisited, 1976—91, 9 Lantern on the Stern: Convictions, Language, Growing Old, Index
Biography
Richard Hoggart, as professor of modern English literature at Birmingham University, founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has authored or edited over twenty-five books, including Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical, The Uses of Literacy, and The Tyranny of Relativism.
