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A Measured Life - The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Paperback)
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A Measured Life - The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Paperback)
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Richard Hoggart's book, The Uses of Literacy, established his
reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of
English working-class life. This large volume vividly depicts his
origins in that setting. It is an autobiographical account
combining Hoggart's three masterful works, A Local Habitation, A
Sort of Clowning, and An Imagined Life, in which he details his
life from 1918 to the present. The first part of the trilogy
(1918-1940) describes Hoggart at an early age, recreating his
circle of family and friends. It ends with him earning his degree
from Leeds University, and about to leave Yorkshire to go into the
army. The second section (1940-1959) opens in wartime England and
moves into the beginnings of Hoggart's career in writing. The final
installment (1959-1991) traces and assesses a changing Britain and
Europe and finds Hoggart reconsidering to his childhood. The book
provides vivid insight into the life of one of Britain's
outstanding writers, and chronicles changes in working-class and
English culture after World War I to the present. Following the
original publication, Philip Oakes of The Times Literary Supplement
wrote, "He writes with a passion that is usually well banked, but
which flows now and then with a visionary intensity. It is a
remarkable way of looking at England." Beryl Bainbridge, writing
for the New Statesman, said, "The setting of his own life in the
context of social history makes Hoggart the ideal autobiographer."
A Measure Life will be an enjoyable and insightful read for
students of literature, culture, and English history as well as
admirers of Richard Hoggart. Few will walk away from this volume
without being the wiser with respect to Western liberal thought in
our times.
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