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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820001503321

Autore

Lodge Sara

Titolo

Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry : work, play, and politics / / Sara Lodge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016.

©2007

ISBN

1-5261-0164-5

1-5261-0165-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

828.709

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century

Literature

Poetry By Individual Poets

POETRY / General

Literary theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Material backgrounds : print, dissent, and the social society -- Hood and the minor : at the London Magazine and after -- Performing the city : the audience as subject -- A common centaur : Hood and the grotesque -- Pun and pleasure : Hood's tied trope -- Sine qua non-sense : work, play, and criticism.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first modern critical study of Thomas Hood, the popular and influential nineteenth-century poet, editor, cartoonist and voice of social protest. Acclaimed by Dickens, the Brownings and the Rossettis, Hood's quirky, diverse output bridges the years between 1820 and 1845 and offers fascinating insights for Romanticists and Victorianists alike. Lodge's timely book explores the relationship between Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption.Each chapter examines something distinctive of interdisciplinary interest, including the early nineteenth-century print culture into which Hood was born; the traditional, urban and political ramifications of the



grotesque art and literature aesthetic; the cultural politics of Hood's trademark puns; theatre, leisure and the 'labour question'. Lively and accessible, this book will appeal to scholars of nineteenth-century English Literature, Visual Arts and Cultural Studies.