Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840
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Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840

Cockney Adventures

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Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840

Cockney Adventures

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. METROPOLITAN ART AND LITERATURE, 1810–1840
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. CHAPTER 1: Leigh Hunt, John Keats and the suburbs
  11. CHAPTER 2: William Hazlitt and the periodical press
  12. CHAPTER 3: Liber Amoris and lodging houses
  13. CHAPTER 4: Pierce Egan and Life in London
  14. CHAPTER 5: Charles Lamb and the alchemy of the streets
  15. CHAPTER 6: John Martin, John Soane and Cockney art
  16. CHAPTER 7: B. R. Haydon and debtors’ prisons
  17. CHAPTER 8: Charles Dickens and Cockney adventures
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index