Multiple collapsed attempts preceded the eventual Stuart Hall essay collection

Evidence

In the mid-1980s, when Stuart and his family had not long since moved to the large house they shared with his mother-in-law in Kilburn, Stuart invited me into his study one day and asked me to try to help him sort out the piles of material he had laid out on the floor, by way of preparation for work on a collection of his essays which, at that stage, was planned for publication by Macmillan. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 44

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hall’s essays were conceived for the moment rather than for the academy — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 8; The essay form demands resistance to monumental completion and enduring flux — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 111; The essay form suited Hall’s provisional, open-ended mode of analysis
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hall’s essays were conceived for the moment rather than for the academy — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 8; The essay form demands resistance to monumental completion and enduring flux — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 111; The essay form suited Hall’s provisional, open-ended mode of analysis