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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