In Brisbane for four days over the long weekend I was delighted to find a secondhand bookshop in south brisbane where I picked up a copy of Richard Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy. I have been keen to read this ever since John Hartley published his Uses of Television inspired by Hoggart. Quaint cover….
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i have a cute cover on mine too… it has a picture of a little boy trying to study in the lounge room with his mum ironing and his dad reading the paper… it was a big part of my phd… enjoy!
yes – i feel like i should have read this long ago – just to clarify for myself Hartley’s perspective – always useful to return to the primary text i think…