On "Vulgar Exhibition": Hazlitt, "The Fight" and the Pornography of Popularity
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Nineteenth-Century Prose
Abstract
This essay pursues Hazlitt as a case in Cultural Studies historiography by reading his 1822 essay "The Fight" as a contribution to the historical emergence of the discourse of "popular culture" as a class-inflected euphemism for pornography. This approach also addresses the popular cultural preoccupations of contemporary criticism on the essay.
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literature, William Hazlitt, Cultural Studies, essay, popular culture, pornography
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McCutcheon, Mark A. “On ‘Vulgar Exhibition’: Hazlitt, ‘The Fight’ and the Pornography of Popularity.” William Hazlitt. Ed. James Mulvihill. Spec. issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose 36.1 (2009): 77-100.