Introduction: Pledged Intelligence 1: How to Teach Reading 2: Culture and Environment 3: Origins and Destinations 4: Will Teachers Bear Scrutiny? 5: Adult Education and 'Left-Leavisism' 6: Discrimination and the Popular Arts 7: Minority Culture and the Penguin Public 8: Scrutiny's Empire Conclusion: The Project of Scrutiny Appendix: Schools and Fathers' Occupations of Downing College Undergraduates Reading English, 1932-1962 References
Christopher Hilliard grew up in New Zealand and studied English and history at the University of Auckland. He then moved to the United States and completed a PhD at Harvard University. Since 2004 he has taught in the history department at the University of Sydney, where he is currently an associate professor. His research criss-crosses the borders between history and literature, and between social processes and intellectual life. He is the author of To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Hilliard's book is a wonderfully painstaking analysis of Leavis's
influence during his time as a teacher and writer. * John Mullan,
London Review of Books *
thoroughly researched and innovative ... Christopher Hilliard's
book is as much a challenge as an historical record. * Paul Dean,
Use of English *
Christopher Hilliard's richly documented history of this movement,
English as a Vocation, takes a fresh approach to the larger
Leavisian current, one that redraws our map of it in several
persuasive ways .,, English as a Vocation is by far the most
reliable and the most carefully judged account of the Scrutineers'
mission. * Chris Baldick, Twentieth Century British History *
This is an outstanding piece of scholarship by an historian who
has, once again, found new ways of exploring British culture in the
first half of the twentieth century. * Adrian Bingham, Media
History *
an admirable book ... written in an attractively clear style which
manages to be simultaneously measured and crisp. I have done a lot
of work on this subject over the years, but, even so, in reading
Hilliard I have often been impressed by the resourcefulness of his
scholarship and the perceptiveness of his analysis, and I can
certainly say, in all sincerity, that I have learned a great deal
from this book. * Stefan Collini, Times Literary Supplement *
an outstanding contribution to twentieth-century British
intellectual history ... it offers a fresh and insightful approach
to intellectual history generally. * Guy Ortolano, English
Historical Review *
meticulously researched and richly detailed * Alexander Howard,
Australian Review of Books *
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