A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59

by RichardHoggart (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.44

  The first volume of Hoggart's Life and Times described his working-class childhood in Leeds. This books opens in 1940, when he joned the Royal Artillery: wartime Britain is evoked, as is active service in North Africa and Italy. Back in England in 1946, Hoggart went on to teach in the extra-mural department of Hull University, travelling all over north-east England. He was also beginning to make his mark as a writer. His study of W.H. Auden was followed by The Uses of Literacy .