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Author series 27 - Richard Hoggart

Author series 27 - Cultural Studies

Richard Hoggart

* 24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014

*British academic , special focus in Cultural studies

*Published his first book, a study of WH Auden"s poetry, in 1951.

*Major work, 
The Uses of Literacy(1957)=Partly autobiography, the volume was interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic working class popular culture in Britain, and denouncing the imposition of a mass culture through advertising, media and Americanisation.

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