Selected Writings - Brossura

Hazlitt, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199552525 ISBN 13: 9780199552528

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2009

Riassunto

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What unites this variety is his dramatic and passionate intelligence, his unswerving commitment to individual and political liberty, and his courageous opposition to established political and cultural power. Hailed in 1819 as `one of the ablest and most eloquent critics of our nation', Hazlitt was also reviled for his political radicalism by the conservative press of the period. His writing engages with many of the important cultural and political debates of a revolutionary period, and retains its power both to provoke and move the reader.

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Su questo libro

Recensione:

I recommend the Selected Writings of Hazlitt edited by Jan Cook, and the most recent biography, Hazlitt, A Life, by Stanley Jones. (Ottawa Citizen, 13 July 1997)

Contenuti:

Includes: The French Revolution; On Modern Comedy; Modern Tragedy; Our National Theatres; On Personal Identity; Characteristics; On Poetry in General; Shakespeare; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Mr Wordsworth

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199552525
• ISBN 13: 9780199552528
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Redattore: Cook Jon