LEADER 02729nam 22005533u 450 001 9910154333003321 005 20230721014601.0 010 $a0-19-161536-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000153238 035 $a(EBL)829343 035 $a(OCoLC)778339485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000643007 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12292236 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643007 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10653612 035 $a(PQKB)10521089 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC829343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL829343 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000153238 100 $a20130418d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliam Hazlitt $eThe First Modern Man 210 $aOxford $cOUP Oxford$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (1109 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-19-958884-8 327 $aCover 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 23 327 $aChapter 24Part VII: London Solitude; Chapter 25; Epilogue; Endnotes; Index 330 $aRomanticism 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, and 517 $aWilliam Hazlitt 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a824.7 700 $aWu$b Duncan$0154881 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154333003321 996 $aWilliam Hazlitt$93400341 997 $aUNINA