Sara Lodge

Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry

Work, play, and politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087875
• ISBN-10: 0719087872
• Artikelnr.: 37256688

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Material backgrounds: print
dissent
and the social society 2. Hood and the minor: at the London Magazine and after 3. Performing the city: the audience as subject 4. A common centaur: Hood and the grotesque 5. Pun and pleasure: Hood's tied trope 6. Sine qua non-sense: work
play
and criticism Index