ABSTRACT

In The Uses of Literacy and in the many autobiographical works of his later years, Richard Hoggart wrote about shops and shopping. Taking a distance from the adverse stance of the mid-century literary world to ‘consumer society’ in all its forms, Hoggart consistently represented himself as someone who liked to shop. This essay looks at the changing shopping experiences that Hoggart described, and at the rare distinctiveness of this lifelong interest, for a man of his time and cultural places. It concentrates mainly on the shops he wrote about close to the various homes of his life, but it also briefly considers Hoggart’s accounts of contrasting experiences of touristic consumption: the conviviality of the working-class coach trip, as opposed to the isolations of remote retirement travel.

摘要

在《识字的用途》和晚年的许多自传作品中，理查德·霍加特 (Richard Hoggart) 写了有关商店和购物的内容。远离本世纪中叶文学世界对各种形式的“消费社会”的不利立场，霍加特始终将自己描绘成喜欢购物的人。这篇文章着眼于霍加特所描述的不断变化的购物体验，以及这种终生兴趣的罕见独特性，对于他的时代和文化场所的人来说。它主要集中在他所写的靠近他生活的各个家庭的商店，但它也简要地考虑了霍加特对旅游消费体验的不同描述：工人阶级长途汽车旅行的欢乐，而不是远程退休的孤立旅行。