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Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play, and Politics
Contributor(s): Lodge, Sara (Author)
ISBN: 0719087872     ISBN-13: 9780719087875
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.75  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 828.709
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
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.