Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays

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Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu
Psychology Press, 2005 - Literary Collections - 188 pages
The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a collection of previously unpublished essays by the foremost scholars in the field presents Hazlitt as a philosophical, and not simply a 'familiar' essayist. It offers a comprehensive statement of the significance and transmission of Hazlitt's philosophical principles, in his own work and in that of his contemporaries and succeeding writers. This book is an essential contribution to a vital new aspect of Romantic studies and shows Hazlitt to be, as his memorial claims, 'The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age'.

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Contents

Disinterested imagining and impersonal feeling
17
55
23
Hazlitts Essay and Shakespeare
43
Hazlitt and the selfishness of passion
56
Hazlitt and the kings of speech
68
The road to Nether Stowey
83
Hazlitt Wordsworth and The Principles
98
Shelleys Hazlitt
112
Hazlitt and Bentham on
125
Schelling and Hazlitt on disinterestedness and freedom
137
Hazlitt and the inherent
151
Notes
160
Bibliography
175
Index
183
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