William Hazlitt : the First Modern Man.

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Author / Creator:	Wu, Duncan.
Imprint:	Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (1109 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Hazlitt, William, -- 1778-1830. Hazlitt, William, -- 1778-1830 Literature. English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. Electronic books. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11164319

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ISBN:	9780191615368 0191615366 9780199588848 0199588848 9780191563614 0191563617
Notes:	English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Wu, Duncan. William Hazlitt : The First Modern Man. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2008 9780199588848

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