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Romanticism and Linguistic Theory

William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature

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  • © 2009

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  1. Marcus Tomalin
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Marcus Tomalin
    Pages 1-24

  3. Linguistic Theory in the Eighteenth Century

    • Marcus Tomalin
    Pages 25-59

  4. Philology and Philosophical Grammar

    • Marcus Tomalin
    Pages 60-92

  5. The Implications of Style

    • Marcus Tomalin
    Pages 93-121

  6. The Languages of Literature

    • Marcus Tomalin
    Pages 122-147

  7. Victorian Perspectives

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    Pages 148-163

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 165-201
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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.

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

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).

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