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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]
The Uses of Literacy. The Uses of Literacy is a book written by Richard Hoggart and published in 1957, examining the influence of mass media in the United Kingdom. [ 1] The book has been described as a key influence in the history of English and media studies and in the founding of cultural studies. [ 2][ 3]
John Thomas and Lady Jane (1927) Lady Chatterley's Lover is the final novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. [2] An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity ...
W. H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are ...
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was a research centre at the University of Birmingham, England. It was founded in 1964 by Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart, its first director. [1][2] From 1964 to 2002, it played a critical role in developing the field of cultural studies. [3]
Richard Hoggart's study The Uses of Literacy. Ted Hughes' first collection of poems The Hawk in the Rain. Alistair MacLean's wartime adventure novel The Guns of Navarone. Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving but Drowning". Evelyn Waugh's novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Bert Weedon's guitar tutorial Play in a Day. John Wyndham's novel The ...
Richard Lovelace by William Dobson. " To Althea, from Prison " is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining ...