Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature

by M. Tomalin

Overview

This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and also considering figures such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349304295
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	201
Sales rank:	964,199
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARCUS TOMALIN is a Fellow of Downing College and an Affiliated Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research focuses upon literature and linguistic theory during the Romantic period, as well as missionary linguistics and the development of syntactic theory. His many publications include Linguistics and the Formal Sciences (2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction Linguistic Theory in the Eighteenth Century Philology and Philosophical Grammar The Implications of Style The Languages of Literature Victorian Perspectives Bibliography Index

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'...splendid and illuminating.' - Carol Percy, Oxford Journals

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