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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.

Hood, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. --- English poetry --- Literature --- Poetry By Individual Poets --- POETRY / General --- Literary theory --- Hood punning. --- London Magazine. --- London's liberal politics. --- Thomas Hood. --- comic poetry. --- cultural politics. --- cultural production. --- grotesque idiom. --- illegitimate theatre. --- material entities. --- modern scholarship. --- nineteenth-century poetry. --- print culture.