Who revalued 'the masses' as sources and subjects of literature?
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Correct answer: A. Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams
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Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957) and Williams's Culture and Society (1958) — 'there are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses' — took working-class culture seriously.
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