Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry: Work, play, and politics

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Manchester University Press, 2016 M05 16 - 232 pages

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.

 

Contents

print dissent and the social society
16
at the London Magazine and after
39
the audience as subject
73
Hood and the grotesque
99
Hoods tied trope
141
work play and criticism
176
Select bibliography
203
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About the author (2016)

Sara Lodge is Senior Lecturer in English, specialising in Nineteenth-Century Literature, at the University of St Andrews

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TitleThomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry: Work, play, and politics
AuthorSara Lodge
PublisherManchester University Press, 2016
ISBN1526101645, 9781526101648
Length232 pages
  
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