Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 4246
Release: 2015-10-23
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The greatest art critic of his age, William Hazlitt is celebrated for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was an influential drama critic, social commentator and philosopher, now widely considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language. This comprehensive eBook presents Hazlitt’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hazlitt’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major collections and other texts * ALL the major works, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special essays index, with chronological and alphabetical contents tables * Easily locate the essays you want to read * Includes Hazlitt’s rare essay collections – available in no other collection * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Hazlitt’s contribution to literature * Features a bonus biographies - discover Hazlitt’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN ACTION FREE THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS ADVERTISEMENT ETC. FROM ‘THE ELOQUENCE OF THE BRITISH SENATE’ THE ROUND TABLE CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEAR’S PLAYS LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE TABLE-TALK THE FIGHT LIBER AMORIS CHARACTERISTICS SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL PICTURE-GALLERIES IN ENGLAND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE THE PLAIN SPEAKER NOTES OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY WINTERSLOW HAZLITT ON ENGLISH LITERATURE Essays Index LIST OF ESSAYS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF ESSAYS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Criticism WILLIAM HAZLITT by Arthur Rickett HAZLITT by George Saintsbury WILLIAM HAZLITT by Leslie Stephen WILLIAM HAZLITT by Augustine Birrell INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM HAZLITT by Jacob Zeitlin The Biography WILLIAM HAZLITT by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Naturalization of the Soul

Naturalization of the Soul
Author: John Barresi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134606036

Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious 'soul' was replaced first by a philosophical 'self' and then by a scientific 'mind'. The authors show that many supposedly contemporary theories of the self were actually discussed in the eighteenth century, and recognize the status of William Hazlitt as one of the most important Personal Identity theorists of the British Enlightenment, for his direct relevance to contemporary thinking. Now available in paperback, Naturaliazation of the Soul is essential reading for anyone interested in the issues at the core of the Western philosophical tradition.

Helvetius

Helvetius
Author: Ian Cumming
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113503429X

Published in 1998, Helvetius is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.

The Pleasures of Memory

The Pleasures of Memory
Author: Sarah Winter
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2015-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0823266192

What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.” Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens’s serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens’s celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into “mass” populations served by state school systems, Dickens’s beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.