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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 Hoodâs playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. -- .

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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

Thomas Hood and NineteenthCentury Poetry

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2007
      ISBN13: 9780719076268, 978-0719076268
      ISBN10: 719076269

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Hoodâs playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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