Richard Hoggart

"The central focus of the book is an examination of broadcasting as the prime disseminator of mass information. Hoggart makes an impassioned argument for Public Service Broadcasting in its truest form, and sees the Public Service ideal as coming increasingly under attack from today's BBC broadcasters who seem to believe that the overwhelming function of television today is to entertain."--BOOK JACKET.

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An "innovative reassessment of the European ideal and its ambiguous role in the kaleidoscope of world culture and politics"--Jacket.

The story of Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix, adored son of Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune.

Introducing this timely survey, Michael Green shows how English, media and cultural studies 'question and energise each other'. The contributors show the effect of this interaction, both in new approaches to literary analysis and in a concern with the broader context within which much academic English is recognised as operating. -- from back cover.