Thoroughly researched and referenced, including well-reproduced illustrations, the book does credit to the author's academic mentor, the late Marilyn Butler, to whom the work is dedicated. It also provides a timely reminder of the possibilities of the political essay.
Neil Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement
the book represents a heavyweight entry into the field of Hazlitt studies, as well ... Read moreas early nineteenth-century political literature. For its intended readership, the book will find a rapt and appreciative audience.
David Snowdon, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840
Gilmartin's scrupulous range of scholarly reference ... furnishes the interested reader with a virtual intellectual history of Hazlitt scholarship over the past three-quarters of century, and enrolls the reader in an ongoing seminar, with much back-and-forth between older established views and highly nuanced differences of opinion between newer, fresher interpretations.
Kenneth R. Johnston, The Wordsworth Circle
... a major reassessment of Hazlitt, developed through a brilliant and highly original form of close reading.
James Grande, Review of English Studies
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