Description
About the Author
Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University Washington DC. He is a former Fellow of St Catherine's College and Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. His previous books include Wordsworth: An Inner Life (2000), and Romanticism: An Anthology, a standard text now in its third edition. He is the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols, 1998), William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: Key Essays (1998), (with Tom Paulin and Uttara Natarajan) Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays (2005), and New Writings of William Hazlitt (2007).
Reviews
This biography is a fluent and impassioned defence of Hazlitt against his detractors. * Ronan McDonald, The Observer *
A winning combination of scholarly rigour and narrative panache. * The Independent on Sunday. Jonathan Wright. *
This is a tanalising and revealing picture of William Hazlitt. * Irish Times. Anne Haverty. *
Wu's detective work generally provides dividends...the biography gives us an excellent sense of the range of Hazlitt's commitment and contacts. * London Review of Books, Matthew Bevis *
Wu is the foremost authority on Hazlitt and makes a worthwhile case for Hazlitt as an essayist very much superior to Lamb and De Quincey. * The Times *
A much needed concise, clear and readable account. * Sarah Burton Matthew, The Independent *
I greatly enjoyed this major new biography... an exceptional study. * Times Higher Education *
'plenty to savour' * LRB *
Wu's biography is, like its subject, passionately partisan. * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199549580
Author Duncan Wu
Format Hardback
Page Count 594
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 34mm