Hazlitt the Dissenter [electronic resource] : Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816 /
Burley, Stephen.author.
Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Memorial Sermon; Hazlitt the Dissenter; 1 William Hazlitt (1737-1820) and the Unitarian Controversy; 'One of the fathers of the modern Unitarian church'; 'A mark of separation'; The Rise of English Unitarianism; Polemical Divinity; 'Beware the black rebel'; Transatlantic Unitarianism; Educating William; 2 'A slaughter-house of Christianity': New College, Hackney (1786-96); North's Coffee House, Cheapside; A Dissenting Education; 'My first entrance into life': Hazlitt's Hackney; The New College Curriculum
'The principles of instability and decay''The misfortune and dishonour of the Dissenters'; 'A hot-bed of sedition'; 'A slaughter-house of Christianity'; 3 A 'new system of metaphysics'; Hazlitt the Philosopher; 'A metaphysical discovery'; The Genesis of the Essay; An Essay on the Principles of Human Action (1805); Price, Reid, Crabb Robinson, and Kant; 'The mind alone is formative'; A History of English Philosophy; 4 Retrospective Radicalism: Pitt, Patriotism, and Population; The Politics of Dissent; Pitt's Legacy: A 'death-like apathy in the state'
To revive what was forgotten': The Eloquence of the British SenateThe Whig Apostasy: Malthus, Whitbread, and Poor Law Reform; Saint Holcroft; Conclusion: 'A sublime humanity'; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830.
Civilization—History.
Literature.
Great Britain—History.
Philosophy.
Social history.
Literature—History and criticism.
Cultural History.
Literature, general.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Philosophy.
Social History.
Literary History.