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Autore: |
Wu Duncan
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Titolo: |
William Hazlitt : The First Modern Man
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1109 p.) |
Disciplina: | 824.7 |
Soggetto topico: | English |
Languages & Literatures | |
English Literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 23 |
Chapter 24Part VII: London Solitude; Chapter 25; Epilogue; Endnotes; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. Asthe biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and |
Altri titoli varianti: | William Hazlitt |
Titolo autorizzato: | William Hazlitt ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-161536-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154333003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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