Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Sources, Introduction to the American Edition, Introduction, PART ONE: SOCIETY AND CULTURE: HOME AND AWAY, Are Museums Political?, Noble Aspirations: UNESCO and Civil Society, a Memoir, Broadcasting, Democracy and the Enabling Principle, PART TWO: A VERY ENGLISH VOICE, D. H. Lawrence’s Country, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley and the Censors, PART THREE: POLITICS AND LITERATURE, The Road to Wigan Pier, The State versus Literature, Freedom to Publish: Even Hateful Stuff, Reviewers and Reviewing, PART FOUR: LEVELS OF EDUCATION, Politics, Anti-Politics and the Unpolitical: The Universities in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, Gamekeepers or Poachers: A Matter of Approach, Between Two Worlds: Public and Private Discourses, Literacy is Not Enough: Critical Literacy and Creative Reading, PART FIVE: FIGURES FROM A DISTANT PAST, Memoir For Our Grandchildren, Brother Tom, Bill and Lil, Auntie Ann, Harry and Doris, PART SIX: SUMMING UP AND SIGNING OFF, Looking Back: An Interview with Nicolas Tredell

About the Author

Richard Hoggart, as professor of modern English literature at Birmingham University, founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has authored or edited over twenty-five books, including Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical, The Uses of Literacy, and The Tyranny of Relativism.