Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature (Transitions)

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. 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--Cover. Introduction -- Linguistic theory in the eighteenth century -- Philology and philosophical grammar -- The implications of style -- The languages of literature -- Victorian perspectives