Marcus Tomalin. Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language and Literature

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — x, 201 pp. — ISBN13: 978–0–230–21833–8.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.Romanticism and Language
Hazlitt on Language and Linguistic Theory
Reception and Analysis
The Way Ahead
Linguistic Theory in the Eighteenth Century
Theories and Theorists
Philosophy of Language
Philosophical Grammars
Grammar Textbooks
Lexicography
Language and Style
Tories and Radicals
Philology and Philosophical Grammar
Hazlitt and Philosophical Grammar
Nonsense and Redemption
Horne Tooke’s Theory of Language
Indeclinable Words
Winged Words
Rejecting Metaphysics
A Light in the Darkness
The Implications of Style
The Influence of Pedagogy
Vulgarisms and Broken English
The Grammars of English
Perspicuity: Purity, Propriety, and Precision
Familiarising the Perspicuous
The Languages of Literature
Grammar and Literature
Verbal Criticism
Common Language
Victorian Perspectives
Hazlitt’s Influence?
Journalism and Urbanism
The Progress of Philology