Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language and Literature

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.

Author: M. Tomalin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9781349304295

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).