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<i>Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media& Cultural Studies</i><br /><br /> With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation.<ul><li>Re-examines the reputation of one of the inventors of Cultural Studies</li><li>Uses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and determine its current relevance</li><li>Addresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles within academia</li><li>Brings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social history to bear on this figure whose interests spread across disciplines, to create a text which blends many threads into a coherent whole</li></ul>