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William Hazlitt
Duncan Wu
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Description for William Hazlitt
Paperback. Duncan Wu's fascinating portrait of William Hazlitt - the first fully-researched biography, and the first to cover Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era. Num Pages: 592 pages, frontispiece, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1042.
Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of ourselves - of the culture and world we now inhabit. Perhaps the most important development of his time, the creation of a mass media, is one that now dominates our lives. Hazlitt's livelihood was dependent on it. As the biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as ... Read more
Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of ourselves - of the culture and world we now inhabit. Perhaps the most important development of his time, the creation of a mass media, is one that now dominates our lives. Hazlitt's livelihood was dependent on it. As the biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Number of Pages
594
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199588848
SKU
V9780199588848
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Reviews for William Hazlitt
Hazlitt is a terrific subject and Wu does him proud.
The Independent
The Independent