Richard Hoggart
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Born | Herbert Richard Hoggart 24 September 1918 Potternewton, Leeds, England |
Died | 10 April 2014 London, England | (aged 95)
Education | University of Leeds |
Occupation | Academic |
Children | 3, including Simon & Paul |
Herbert Richard Hoggart
Early life
Hoggart was born in the
Career
He was a staff tutor at the
He became Senior Lecturer in English at the
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
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
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
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
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
- Auden (Chatto, 1951) ISBN 0-7011-0762-6 biography of W. H. Auden.
- 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 0-901753-03-3paper 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 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
- European Museum of the Year
References
- . 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.