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Informationen zum Autor Sara Lodge is Lecturer in English, specialising in Nineteenth-Century Literature, at the University of St Andrews Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Material backgrounds: print, dissent, and the social society2. Hood and the minor: at the London Magazine and after3. Performing the city: the audience as subject4. A common centaur: Hood and the grotesque5. Pun and pleasure: Hood's tied trope6. Sine qua non-sense: work, play, and criticismIndex
