William Hazlitt : the First Modern Man.
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Author / Creator: | Wu, Duncan. |
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Imprint: | Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (1109 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11164319 |
ISBN: | 9780191615368 0191615366 9780199588848 0199588848 9780191563614 0191563617 |
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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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