Richard Hoggart

Michael Bailey (University of Essex)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 24 Sep 1918
Died 10 Apr 2014
Activity 1938-ongoing

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Hoggart's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Since the publication of

The Uses of Literacy

in 1957, Richard Hoggart has been one of Britain's foremost public intellectuals and cultural commentators. Though a literary critic by training, his work has repeatedly challenged entrenched disciplinary and social boundaries, addressing a wide range of subjects including literature, popular culture and the development of public policy. His reputation for being both a critical and practical intellectual is evident in the way that he worked tirelessly within and without the world of academe for much of his career, working as an extra-mural lecturer at the University of Hull (1946-1959), Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester (1959-1962), Professor of English and founding Director for the Centre for Contemporary Cultural…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

4911 words

Citation: Bailey, Michael. "Richard Hoggart". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 October 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2170, accessed 26 November 2024.]

View recommended reading for this article