The Myth of ‘Raymond Hoggart': On ‘Founding Fathers’ and Cultural Policy

Abstract

At the time when Richard Hoggart and I were inseparable, we had not yet met. it still seems reasonable that so many people put his Uses of Literacy and my Culture and Society together. One newspaper went so far as to refer, seriously, to a book called the Uses of Culture by Raymond Hoggart. But as I say we did not then know each other, and as writers we were pretty clear about our differences as well as our obvious common ground. (Raymond Williams, 1970a). Show more