Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840: Cockney Adventures

Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840: Cockney Adventures
ISBN-10
113953694X
ISBN-13
9781139536943
Category
Literary Criticism
Language
English
Published
2012-07-26
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Gregory Dart

Description

Gregory Dart expands upon existing notions of Cockneys and the 'Cockney School' in the late Romantic period by exploring some of the broader ramifications of the phenomenon in art and periodical literature. He argues that the term was not confined to discussion of the Leigh Hunt circle, but was fast becoming a way of gesturing towards everything in modern metropolitan life that seemed discrepant and disturbing. Covering the ground between Romanticism and Victorianism, Dart presents Cockneyism as a powerful critical currency in this period, which helps provide a link between the works of Leigh Hunt and Keats in the 1810s and the early works of Charles Dickens in the 1830s. Through an examination of literary history, art history, urban history and social history, this book identifies the early nineteenth-century figure of the Cockney as the true ancestor of modernity.

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