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Author:   William Hazlitt ,  Jon Mee (University of York) ,  James Grande (King's College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.10cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780199591954

ISBN 10:   0199591954
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   24 June 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of William Hazlitt 1: Reply to Malthus 2: Fragments on Art 3: Mr Kean's Shylock 4: On Imitation 5: On Gusto 6: On the Elgin Marbles 7: Mrs Siddons 8: Mr Kemble's King John 9: Coriolanus 10: Macbeth 11: Hamlet 12: Character of Mr Burke 13: On Court Influence 14: On Fashion 15: Minor Theatres 16: On the Pleasure of Painting 17: Character of Cobbett 18: The Indian Jugglers 19: On a Landscape by Nicholas Poussin 20: The Fight 21: On Familiar Style 22: On the Spirit of Monarchy 23: My First Acquaintance with Poets 24: On Londoners and Country People 25: Jeremy Bentham 26: Lord Byron 27: William Godwin 28: Mr Wordsworth 29: On the Pleasure of Hating 30: Our National Theatres 31: The Spirit of Controversy 32: The Free Admission 33: The Letter-Bell Explanatory Notes

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The ambitious attention to contextual situations, and the generous help afforded through introduction and annotations, make this the best selection yet for undergraduates, and the most affordable genuinely good edition for any Hazlitt reader. * Koenraad Claes, Hazlitt Review *

Author Information

Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He was previously Professor of Literature at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford, and Margaret Candfield Fellow in English Literature at University College, Oxford. He has worked at the Australian National University and held visiting professorships at ANU, the University of Chicago and the H. E. Huntington Library James Grande is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London. He was previously a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded Godwin Diary Project at Oxford, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at KCL, and a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project 'Music in London, 1800-1851'. He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House in Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.

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