William Hazlitt : The First Modern Man

• Autore: Wu Duncan
• 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