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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Introduction
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Preface
The Uses of Literacy
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’
C Mother
D Father
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
11 Conclusion
A Resilience
B Summary of Present Tendencies in Mass Culture
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
An Interview with Richard Hoggart
Index
Footnotes
PART TWO: YIELDING PLACE TO NEW
11 Conclusion
Page 304
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