An Imagined Life by Richard Hoggart

An Imagined Life by Richard Hoggart

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The third and final volume of Hoggart's autobiography deals with the years from 1959 to the present, including his part in the Lady Chatterley trial and his time at UNESCO.

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An Imagined Life by Richard Hoggart

"A Local Habitation" and "A Sort of Clowning" traced Richard Hoggart's life to 1959. In this final part of his autobiography, he recalls the changes in his life which followed the publication of his "Uses of Literacy", his pronouncement to a shocked court during the Lady Chatterley trial that Lawrence was "puritanical", his involvement with the Pilkington report on broadcasting and UNESCO, and his rewarding time as Warden of Goldsmith's College, London (during which time he engaged in broadcasting, film, print, adult education, and battles against censorship of the arts). Famous names move across the pages - T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, W.H. Auden - and Hoggart's career traces and assesses a changing world. But it is to his private life, and to his childhood, that this trilogy returns for its conclusion. This book should be of interest to readers of contemporary English autobiography, and those who enjoyed Hoggart's other works.
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ISBN 13 9780192831125
ISBN 10 0192831127
Title An Imagined Life
Author Richard Hoggart
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1993-02-18
Number of pages 316
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.