Richard Hoggart, famous for his writings on literature, education, and the means of communication, and especially for his influential The Uses of Literacy, has written a new work in which he looks at
The Tyranny of Relativism is an impassioned attempt by one of England's most distinguished critics to capture the feel of British culture at the end of the twentieth century: its moods, attitudes, and
When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the su
This pioneering work examines how mass media changed the lives and values of the English working class. Mixing personal memoir with social history and cultural critique, Hoggart's approaches to cultur
The Uses of Literacy (1957) established Hoggart's reputation as a distinctively observant chronicler of English working-class life. This volume contains his three-part autobiography ( A Local Habitat
The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart's new book is its charm. In the style of Montaigne, Hoggart looks back over his years and pinpoints those human qualities which have come to mean most to him
Throughout his life, Richard Hoggart has been involved with four main areas: broadcasting, arts policy, education, and social work, all of which he finds have characteristics in common. This collectio
An Idea and Its Servants is a book from the alternative, parallel universe of UNESCO. That universe can be found in the original architects’ renderings of the UN complex as it was being designed and b
In 1936 George Orwell was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, and The Road to Wigan Pier is a powerful description of the poverty he witnessed there, published wi
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged -- a forceful controversialist in the debates that s
