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

by RichardHoggart (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.25

  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 .

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  Opening with his wartime exploits in North Africa and Italy, this sequel to Richard Hoggart's first volume of autobiography, A Local Habitation , recalls his teaching career in the North-East of England and charts his rise in the literary world from his pioneering study of W.H.Auden to The Uses of Literacy , the book that not only exerted a profound and radical influence, but also made him an overnight celebrity. Hogart's story sweeps us from troopships to Eisenhower's America, and from literary London to Philip Larkin's Hull. The book should appeal to admirers of Hoggart's other work, those interested in investigations of class and British society since the Second World War.