This collection of essays re-evaluates Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to Cultural Studies. Hoggart is one of the leading cultural commentators of the last sixty years. His The Uses of Literacy (1957) marked a watershed in public perception of culture and class and shifted academic parameters. He was a leading defence witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. He was one of the first literary critics to take the working class seriously, and founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. These essays, by both leading and emerging cultural scholars, examine Hoggart's legacy to Cultural Studies, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his enduring importance.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction; S.Owen
Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy and the Cultural Turn; S.Hall
Richard Hoggart: Literary Criticism and Cultural Decline in 20th-Century Britain; S.Collini
Richard Hoggart, Cultural Studies and the Demands of the Present; L.Grossberg
Richard Hoggart and the Way We Live Now; J.McGuigan
Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Influence of Cultural Studies; R.E.Lee
From the Juke-Box Boys to Revolting Students: Richard Hoggart and the Study of British Youth Culture; D.Fowler
'Them' and 'Us'; R.J.C.Young
Repurposing Literacy: The Uses of Richard Hoggart for Creative Education; J.Hartley
Critical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, and the English School Curriculum in Australia; G.Turner
The Importance of Being Ordinary; M.Gregg
The Antipodean Uses of Literacy; M.Gibson
Relativism and Reaction: Richard Hoggart and Conservatism; C.Ellis
The Use and Value of Literacy: Richard Hoggart, Aesthetic Standards and the Commodification of Working-Class Culture; B.Hughes
Hoggart and Women; S.Owen
Index

SUE OWEN is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Restoration Theatre and Crisis (1996) and Perspectives on Restoration Drama (2002), the editor of A Companion to Restoration Drama (2001) and the co-editor of A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers and Drinking Places in Literature (2000).