Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward

by Fred Inglis

Book Overview

Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy, provided for thousands of unsung working-class readers a wholly recognisable and tender account of their own coming-to-maturity and of the preciousness and the hardships of the life of the poor in pre-World War II Britain.

But he was far more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745651712
• ISBN13: 9780745651712
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"