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

Zusatztext '...splendid and illuminating.' - Carol Percy! Oxford Journals Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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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• Authors: M Tomalin, M. Tomalin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349304295
• ISBN: 978-1-349-30429-5
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Linguistics, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: general, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection