Romanticism and Linguistic Theory William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature [Hardcover]

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.Introduction Linguistic Theory in the Eighteenth Century Philology and Philosophical Grammar The Implications of Style The Languages of Literature Victorian Perspectives Bibliography Index

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

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).