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Hoggart and Women
I mentioned in the introduction to this volume that the time for a re-evaluation of Hoggart was exactly right. There may be two reasons for this. First, there is a need to return to the idea of class, and to t...
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Introduction
Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy (1957) is one of the seminal texts of the mid-twentieth century. The book, originally entitled The Abuse of Literacy, celebrates in Part I the resilient culture of working-c...