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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 Hood’s 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

Thomas Hood and NineteenthCentury Poetry Work

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 3/31/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719087875, 978-0719087875
      ISBN10: 0719087872

      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 Hood’s 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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