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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 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. 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
