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Romanticism and Linguistic Theory - William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature (Hardcover)
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Romanticism and Linguistic Theory - William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature (Hardcover)
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This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex
relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the
Romantic period. Several topics in eighteenth-century linguistics
are discussed, and the philological interests of figures such as
William Godwin, Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
and Thomas De Quincey are considered. However, it is William
Hazlitt's writings about natural language and linguistic theory
that provide the central focus, and several crucial issues are
considered. In particular, Hazlitt's ambivalent response to the
philosophical grammar movement and to the linguistic theorising of
John Horne Tooke is revealed in its true complexity, while his
views concerning the 'familiar style' are provocatively
reinterpreted in the context of the grammar textbook and
belletristic rhetoric traditions. In addition, it is shown that
Hazlitt's literary criticism was profoundly influenced by his
understanding of linguistic theory, an aspect of his work that has
been largely ignored in the past.
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