Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810-1840: Cockney Adventures

ISBN-13: 9781107024922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Gregory Dart

Opis

Examines the Cockney phenomenon of the late Romantic period - the new metropolitan art and literature of the 1820s and 1830s.

Recenzje

'This well-illustrated, interesting, and very thorough book looks at the Cockney as emergent in London urban culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century. … Dart's book is an essential source for the culture of those very years.' Jeremy Tambling, Notes and Queries

Spis treści

Introduction: the Cockney moment; 1. Leigh Hunt, John Keats and the suburbs; 2. William Hazlitt and the Periodical Press; 3. Liber Amoris and lodging houses; 4. Pierce Egan and life in London; 5. Charles Lamb and the alchemy of the streets; 6. John Martin, John Soane and Cockney art; 7. B. R. Haydon and debtors' prisons; 8. Charles Dickens and Cockney adventures.