Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry: Work, play, and politicsManchester University Press, 16 mai 2016 - 232 pages 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. |
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... claim to be taken seriously , those of us who teach and research in the academy valorize seriousness . To maintain our claims to professionalism , we eschew language that might be deemed insufficiently professional . More- over , to ...
... claims of ' importance ' and ' productivity ' , then , have worked tacitly to underwrite continuing hierarchies not ... claim for the literary value of play , and of the notionally ' minor ' ( authors , works , and academics ) . I hope ...
... claims to instil : language intended to perform a par- ticular kind of work proves always liable to play , in the related senses of plasticity and of entertainment . The Progress of Cant , as Charles Lamb recognized in his appreciative ...
... claim immunity from the commercial : but this , in Hood's eyes , far from being a recent or threatening development , is an age - old truth that time has simply magnified . In ' The Advertisement Literature of the Age ' ( 1843 ) he ...
... claimed in the 1800 preface to Lyrical Ballads that many of the best lines of poetry might be written as prose : the language and diction of poetry ought not to be specialized in such a way that they distorted the rhythms of feeling ...
Table des matières
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the audience as subject | 73 |
Hood and the grotesque | 99 |
Hoods tied trope | 141 |
work play and criticism | 176 |
Select bibliography | 203 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play and Politics Sara Lodge Affichage d'extraits - 2007 |
Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play and Politics Sara Lodge Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play, and Politics Sara Lodge Aucun aperçu disponible - 2013 |