ABSTRACT
In the penultimate chapter ‘The Anxious and Uprooted’ Hoggart’s preoccupation with the fate of the working-class grammar schoolboy is fully vented. This is perhaps the most flawed chapter in the book. Hoggart is almost wilfully blind to the fate of the ‘clever’ or ‘angry’ young woman who may not have had the same opportunities to be educated, uprooted or indeed time to reflect existentially on their lot. This is redressed here largely by opening up some of these issues with the help of Butler, Mulvey, Haraway and by exploring Loofbourow’s notion of The Male Glance. Hoggart is also attached to a biologically determinist view of intelligence, which may well owe a little to a need for recognition of his own superior talents and achievements. All that said, the chapter resonates still today for many and in a way we might liken to the poignant and sharply observed working-class characters who were once a strong feature of British television.
