Speaking to Each Other Volume Two: About Literature

It is now over fifteen years since Richard Hoggart's classic study of British working-class life and culture, The Uses of Literacy, first appeared. In the meantime, he has written extensively on society, on literature and on the relationships between the two. Here he has selected, revised and grouped in two volumes some forty of his best essays and papers. In About Literature Professor Hoggart includes critical essays on such writers as Graham Greene, George Orwell and Samuel Butler; on autobiographical writing; on the role of literature in society; and on teaching literature. This volume also contains his seminal paper, "The Literary Imagination and the Sociological Imagination". 'Richard Hoggart is an incomparable observer of the very substance of our language and feelings'-Raymond Williams in the Guardian About Society, the companion to this volume, is published simultaneously in Pelicans.