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Richard Hoggart

October 16, 2023

Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.

Richard Hoggart
Born
Herbert Richard Hoggart

(1918-09-24)24 September 1918
Potternewton, Leeds, England
Died10 April 2014(2014-04-10) (aged 95)
London, England
EducationUniversity of Leeds
OccupationAcademic
Children3, including Simon & Paul

Early life Edit

Hoggart was born in the Potternewton area of Leeds, one of three children in an impoverished family. His father, Tom Longfellow Hoggart (1880–1922), the son of a boilermaker, was a regular infantry soldier and housepainter who died of brucellosis when Hoggart was a year old, and his mother Adeline died of a chest illness when he was eight.[1] He grew up with his grandmother in Hunslet, and was encouraged in his education by an aunt. Emulating his elder brother, Tom, the first of the family to go to a grammar school,[2] he gained a place at Cockburn High School which was a grammar school, after his headmaster requested that the education authority reread his scholarship examination essay. He then won a scholarship to study English at the University of Leeds, where he graduated with a first class degree.[3] He served with the Royal Artillery during World War II and was discharged as a staff captain.[2]

Career Edit

He was a staff tutor at the University of Hull from 1946 to 1959, and published his first book, a study of W. H. Auden's poetry, in 1951. His major work, The Uses of Literacy, was published in 1957. Partly autobiography, the volume was interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic working class popular culture in Britain, and denouncing the imposition of a mass culture through advertising, media and Americanisation.

He became Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester from 1959 to 1962. Hoggart was an expert witness at the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960, and his argument that it was an essentially moral and "puritan" work, which merely repeated words he had heard on a building site on his way to the court,[4] is sometimes viewed as having had a decisive influence on the outcome of the trial.

While Professor of English at Birmingham University between 1962 and 1973, he founded the institution's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1964 and was its director until 1969. Hoggart was Assistant Director-General of UNESCO (1971–1975) and finally Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London (1976–1984), after which he retired from formal academic life. The Main Building at Goldsmiths has now been renamed the "Richard Hoggart Building" in tribute to his contributions to the college.

Hoggart was a member of numerous public bodies and committees, including the Albemarle Committee on Youth Services (1958–1960), the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting (1960–1962), the Arts Council of Great Britain (1976–1981) and the Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd (1977–1981). He was also Chairman of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education (1977–1983), and the Broadcasting Research Unit (1981–1991), as well as a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1962–1988).

In later works, such as The Way We Live Now (1995), he regretted the decline in moral authority that he held religion once provided. He also attacked contemporary education for its emphasis on the vocational, and cultural relativism for its tendency to concentrate on the popular and meretricious.

Personal life Edit

One of his two sons was the political journalist Simon Hoggart, who predeceased him by three months,[5] and the other is the television critic Paul Hoggart. He was also survived by a daughter, Nicola. In The Chatterley Affair, a 2006 dramatisation of the 1960 trial made for the digital television channel BBC Four, he was played by actor David Tennant.

Death Edit

In later life he suffered from dementia.[5] He died at a nursing home in London on 10 April 2014, aged 95.[6]

Auden: An Introductory Essay Edit

Hoggart wrote a "critical study" of the "whole range of Auden's works." This "range" included "the earlier poems of the thirties, the plays, and the long poems."[7]

Works Edit

  • Auden (Chatto, 1951) ISBN 0-7011-0762-6 biography of W. H. Auden.
  • The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (Chatto and Windus, 1957) ISBN 0-7011-0763-4.
  • Teaching Literature (Nat. Inst. of Adult Education, 1963) ISBN 0-900559-19-5.
  • Higher Education and Cultural Change: A Teacher's View (Earl Grey Memorial Lecture) (Univ.Newcastle, 1966) ISBN 0-900565-62-4.
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies: An Approach to the Study of Literature and Society (Univ. Birmingham, Centre for Contemp. Cult. Studies, 1969) ISBN 0-901753-03-3 paper is based on a lecture given to the annual conference of the American Association for Higher Education at Chicago on 20 March 1978.
  • Speaking to Each Other: About Society v. 1 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0-7011-1463-0.
  • Speaking to Each Other: About Literature v. 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0-7011-1514-9.
  • Only Connect: On Culture and Communication (Reith Lectures) (Chatto and Windus, 1972) ISBN 0-7011-1865-2.
  • After Expansion, a Time for Diversity: The Universities Into the 1990s (ACACE, 1978) ISBN 0-906436-00-1.
  • An Idea and Its Servants: UNESCO from Within (Chatto and Windus, 1978) ISBN 0-7011-2371-0.
  • An English Temper (Chatto and Windus, 1982) ISBN 0-7011-2581-0.
  • The Future of Broadcasting by Richard Hoggart, Janet Morgan (Holmes & Meier, 1982) ISBN 0-8419-5090-3 .
  • British Council and the Arts by Richard Hoggart et al. (British Council, 1986) ISBN 0-86355-048-7.
  • The Worst of Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in Britain by Nigel Gray, Richard Hoggart (Barnes & Noble Imports, 1986) ISBN 0-389-20574-5.
  • An Idea of Europe (Chatto and Windus, 1987) ISBN 0-7011-3244-2.
  • A Local Habitation, 1918–40 (Chatto and Windus, 1988) ISBN 0-7011-3305-8; first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" describing his working-class childhood in Leeds.
  • Liberty and Legislation (Frank Cass Publishers, 1989) ISBN 0-7146-3308-9.
  • A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940–59 (Chatto and Windus, 1990) ISBN 0-7011-3607-3
  • An Imagined Life: Life and Times, 1959–91 (Chatto and Windus, 1992) ISBN 0-7011-4015-1.
  • Townscape with Figures: Farnham – Portrait of an English Town (Chatto and Windus, 1994) ISBN 0-7011-6138-8.
  • A Measured Life: The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Transaction Publishers, 1994) ISBN 1-56000-135-6.
  • The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Chatto and Windus, 1995) ISBN 0-7011-6501-4 republished as The Tyranny of Relativism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1-56000-953-5.
  • First and Last Things: The Uses of Old Age (Aurum Press, 1999) ISBN 1-85410-660-0.
  • Between Two Worlds: Essays, 1978–1999 (Aurum Press, 2001) ISBN 1-85410-782-8.
  • Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical (Transaction Publishers, 2002) ISBN 0-7658-0097-7.
  • Everyday Language and Everyday Life (Transaction Publishers, 2003) ISBN 0-7658-0176-0.
  • Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality (Continuum International Publishing Group – Academi, 2004) ISBN 0-8264-7285-0.
  • Promises to Keep: Thoughts in Old Age (Continuum) ISBN 978-0826487148.

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ Collini, Stefan. "Hoggart, (Herbert) Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.108538. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b Ezard, John (10 April 2014). "Richard Hoggart obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Richard Hoggart Obituary". The Telegraph. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  4. ^ Hartley, J. (2009). The Uses of Digital Literacy. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. p. 2
  5. ^ a b Hoggart, Amy (10 January 2014). "Simon Hoggart, my dad, was working, socialising and laughing to the end". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  6. ^ Kettle, Martin (10 April 2014). "Richard Hoggart has died at the age of 95 after a long illness". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  7. ^ Hoggart, Richard. Auden: An Introductory Essay. Yale University Press.

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Longfellow Hoggart 1880 1922 the son of a boilermaker was a regular infantry soldier and housepainter who died of brucellosis when Hoggart was a year old and his mother Adeline died of a chest illness when he was eight 1 He grew up with his grandmother in Hunslet and was encouraged in his education by an aunt Emulating his elder brother Tom the first of the family to go to a grammar school 2 he gained a place at Cockburn High School which was a grammar school after his headmaster requested that the education authority reread his scholarship examination essay He then won a scholarship to study English at the University of Leeds where he graduated with a first class degree 3 He served with the Royal Artillery during World War II and was discharged as a staff captain 2 Career EditHe was a staff tutor at the University of Hull from 1946 to 1959 and published his first book a study of W H Auden s poetry in 1951 His major work The Uses of Literacy was published in 1957 Partly autobiography the volume was interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic working class popular culture in Britain and denouncing the imposition of a mass culture through advertising media and Americanisation He became Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester from 1959 to 1962 Hoggart was an expert witness at the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960 and his argument that it was an essentially moral and puritan work which merely repeated words he had heard on a building site on his way to the court 4 is sometimes viewed as having had a decisive influence on the outcome of the trial While Professor of English at Birmingham University between 1962 and 1973 he founded the institution s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1964 and was its director until 1969 Hoggart was Assistant Director General of UNESCO 1971 1975 and finally Warden of Goldsmiths University of London 1976 1984 after which he retired from formal academic life The Main Building at Goldsmiths has now been renamed the Richard Hoggart Building in tribute to his contributions to the college Hoggart was a member of numerous public bodies and committees including the Albemarle Committee on Youth Services 1958 1960 the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting 1960 1962 the Arts Council of Great Britain 1976 1981 and the Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd 1977 1981 He was also Chairman of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education 1977 1983 and the Broadcasting Research Unit 1981 1991 as well as a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company 1962 1988 In later works such as The Way We Live Now 1995 he regretted the decline in moral authority that he held religion once provided He also attacked contemporary education for its emphasis on the vocational and cultural relativism for its tendency to concentrate on the popular and meretricious Personal life EditOne of his two sons was the political journalist Simon Hoggart who predeceased him by three months 5 and the other is the television critic Paul Hoggart He was also survived by a daughter Nicola In The Chatterley Affair a 2006 dramatisation of the 1960 trial made for the digital television channel BBC Four he was played by actor David Tennant Death EditIn later life he suffered from dementia 5 He died at a nursing home in London on 10 April 2014 aged 95 6 Auden An Introductory Essay EditHoggart wrote a critical study of the whole range of Auden s works This range included the earlier poems of the thirties the plays and the long poems 7 Works EditAuden Chatto 1951 ISBN 0 7011 0762 6 biography of W H Auden The Uses of Literacy Aspects of Working Class Life Chatto and Windus 1957 ISBN 0 7011 0763 4 Teaching Literature Nat Inst of Adult Education 1963 ISBN 0 900559 19 5 Higher Education and Cultural Change A Teacher s View Earl Grey Memorial Lecture Univ Newcastle 1966 ISBN 0 900565 62 4 Contemporary Cultural Studies An Approach to the Study of Literature and Society Univ Birmingham Centre for Contemp Cult Studies 1969 ISBN 0 901753 03 3 paper is based on a lecture given to the annual conference of the American Association for Higher Education at Chicago on 20 March 1978 Speaking to Each Other About Society v 1 Chatto and Windus 1970 ISBN 0 7011 1463 0 Speaking to Each Other About Literature v 2 Chatto and Windus 1970 ISBN 0 7011 1514 9 Only Connect On Culture and Communication Reith Lectures Chatto and Windus 1972 ISBN 0 7011 1865 2 After Expansion a Time for Diversity The Universities Into the 1990s ACACE 1978 ISBN 0 906436 00 1 An Idea and Its Servants UNESCO from Within Chatto and Windus 1978 ISBN 0 7011 2371 0 An English Temper Chatto and Windus 1982 ISBN 0 7011 2581 0 The Future of Broadcasting by Richard Hoggart Janet Morgan Holmes amp Meier 1982 ISBN 0 8419 5090 3 British Council and the Arts by Richard Hoggart et al British Council 1986 ISBN 0 86355 048 7 The Worst of Times An Oral History of the Great Depression in Britain by Nigel Gray Richard Hoggart Barnes amp Noble Imports 1986 ISBN 0 389 20574 5 An Idea of Europe Chatto and Windus 1987 ISBN 0 7011 3244 2 A Local Habitation 1918 40 Chatto and Windus 1988 ISBN 0 7011 3305 8 first volume of Hoggart s Life and Times describing his working class childhood in Leeds Liberty and Legislation Frank Cass Publishers 1989 ISBN 0 7146 3308 9 A Sort of Clowning Life and Times 1940 59 Chatto and Windus 1990 ISBN 0 7011 3607 3 An Imagined Life Life and Times 1959 91 Chatto and Windus 1992 ISBN 0 7011 4015 1 Townscape with Figures Farnham Portrait of an English Town Chatto and Windus 1994 ISBN 0 7011 6138 8 A Measured Life The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual Transaction Publishers 1994 ISBN 1 56000 135 6 The Way We Live Now Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture Chatto and Windus 1995 ISBN 0 7011 6501 4 republished as The Tyranny of Relativism Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society Transaction Publishers 1997 ISBN 1 56000 953 5 First and Last Things The Uses of Old Age Aurum Press 1999 ISBN 1 85410 660 0 Between Two Worlds Essays 1978 1999 Aurum Press 2001 ISBN 1 85410 782 8 Between Two Worlds Politics Anti Politics and the Unpolitical Transaction Publishers 2002 ISBN 0 7658 0097 7 Everyday Language and Everyday Life Transaction Publishers 2003 ISBN 0 7658 0176 0 Mass Media in a Mass Society Myth and Reality Continuum International Publishing Group Academi 2004 ISBN 0 8264 7285 0 Promises to Keep Thoughts in Old Age Continuum ISBN 978 0826487148 See also EditEuropean Museum of the YearReferences Edit Collini Stefan Hoggart Herbert Richard Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi 10 1093 odnb 9780198614128 013 108538 Retrieved 15 April 2021 a b Ezard John 10 April 2014 Richard Hoggart obituary The Guardian Retrieved 15 April 2021 Richard Hoggart Obituary The Telegraph 11 April 2014 Retrieved 15 April 2021 Hartley J 2009 The Uses of Digital Literacy St Lucia University of Queensland Press p 2 a b Hoggart Amy 10 January 2014 Simon Hoggart my dad was working socialising and laughing to the end The Guardian London Retrieved 11 January 2014 Kettle Martin 10 April 2014 Richard Hoggart has died at the age of 95 after a long illness The Guardian Retrieved 12 August 2021 Hoggart Richard Auden An Introductory Essay Yale University Press Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard Hoggart amp oldid 1161389326, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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