Contents

PART ONE: AN ‘OLDER’ ORDER

1 Who are ‘The Working-Classes’?

A Questions of Approach

B A Rough Definition

2 Landscape with Figures – A Setting

A An Oral Tradition: Resistance and Adaptation: A Formal Way of Life

B ‘There’s No Place Like Home’

E The Neighbourhood

3 ‘Them’ and ‘Us’

A ‘Them’: ‘Self-Respect’

B ‘Us’ – the Best and the Worst of It

C ‘Putting Up with Things’: ‘Living and Letting Live’

4 The ‘Real’ World of People

A The Personal and the Concrete

B ‘Primary Religion’

C Illustrations from Popular Art – Peg’s Paper

5 The Full Rich Life

A The Immediate, the Present, the Cheerful: Fate and Luck

B ‘The Biggest Aspidistra in the World’: Excursions into the ‘Baroque’

C Illustrations from Popular Art – Club-Singing

PART TWO: YIELDING PLACE TO NEW

6 Unbending the Springs of Action

A Introductory

B Tolerance and Freedom

C ‘Everybody’s Doing It Now’ or ‘The Gang’s All Here’: The Group Sense and Democratic Egalitarianism

D Living in the Present and ‘Progressivism’

E Indifferentism: ‘Personalization’ and ‘Fragmentation’

7 Invitations to a Candy-Floss World: The Newer Mass Art

A The Producers

B The Process Illustrated: (i) Weekly Family Magazines

C The Process Illustrated: (ii) Commercial Popular Songs

D The Results

8 The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets

A The Juke-Box Boys

B The ‘Spicy’ Magazines

C Sex-and-Violence Novels

9 Unbent Springs: A Note on a Scepticism Without Tension

A Scepticism to Cynicism

B Some Allegorical Figures

10 Unbent Springs: A Note on the Uprooted and the Anxious

A Scholarship Boy

B The Place of Culture: A Nostalgia for Ideals

B Summary of Present Tendencies in Mass Culture

Notes and References

Select Bibliography

An Interview with Richard Hoggart