02729nam 22005533u 450 991015433300332120230721014601.00-19-161536-6(CKB)2670000000153238(EBL)829343(OCoLC)778339485(SSID)ssj0000643007(PQKBManifestationID)12292236(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643007(PQKBWorkID)10653612(PQKB)10521089(MiAaPQ)EBC829343(Au-PeEL)EBL829343(EXLCZ)99267000000015323820130418d2008|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam Hazlitt The First Modern ManOxford OUP Oxford20081 online resource (1109 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-958884-8 Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Prologue; Part I: The Road to Nether Stowey; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Part II: Beyond Xanadu; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Part III: A Philosopher in Grub Street; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Part IV: The Plain Speaker; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Part V: The New Pygmalion; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Part VI: Mr Hazlitt's Grand Tour; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23Chapter 24Part VII: London Solitude; Chapter 25; Epilogue; Endnotes; IndexRomanticism 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. Asthe biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, andWilliam Hazlitt EnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCEnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature824.7Wu Duncan154881AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910154333003321William Hazlitt3400341UNINA