Hazlitt and Hunt, 1997

Compiled by Jonathan Gross, DePaul University

WORKS: COLLECTED, SELECTED, SINGLE , TRANSLATED

Drnjevic, Jonathan Mark. "Leigh Hunt's 'The Book of Beginnings,' a Scholarly Edition (Poetry, Nineteenth Century)." [Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State U, 1997], DAI, Vol. 58-10A (1997): 3037.

Examines Hunt's poem "The Book of Beginnings," originally published in The Liberal, which shows his wide-ranging knowledge of poetry from classical Latin works to those of Dryden and Pope in the eighteenth century. A scholarly edition of "The Book of Beginnings," this dissertation uses the 1823 Liberal as copy-text. Includes transcription of manuscript material at the University of Iowa.

Guizot, Francois. The History of Civilization in Europe. Ed. William Hazlitt. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Edited by Hazlitt's son.

Barnard, John. "Charles Cowden Clarke and the Leigh Hunt Circle, 1812-1818." Romanticism 3.1 (1997): 66-90.

Burwick, Frederick. "Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey on Hogarth." WC 28 (1997): 59-70.

"Exhibition Reviews." The Burlington Magazine 139 (1997): 633.

Round-up of exhibition on French art (British Museum; Waddington Galleries; Theo Waddington; Fine Art Society; Wolsey Fine Arts; Stoppenbach and Delestre; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox; Browse and Darby; Neffe-Degandt).

Fredericksen, Andrea. "The Metropolitan Picturesque: Associating Ideas in Modern London." [Doctoral dissertation, U of California, Los Angeles, 1997], DAI, Vol. 58-07A, 2427.

"The final chapter looks at Leigh Hunt's rambles to examine how his art of cultivating pleasant associations enabled him to use London's cityscape as his basic subject, but also allowed him to negotiate new meaning within this metropolitan order."

French, Sean. "Would Melvyn Bragg Be Willing to Have His Own Delightfully Proportioned Features Smashed in if Someone Else Found the Sight Picturesque?" New Statesman (July 18, 1997): 36.

A response to Melvyn Bragg's column (which defended boxing using examples of writers--including Hazlitt--who waxed lyrical on the subject).

Furbank, Philip Nicholas, and W. R. Owens. "The 'Lost' Continuation of Defoe's Resignée (With Appendix)." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 9 (1997): 299-308.

Discusses Hazlitt's edition of Resignée.

Garnett, Mark. "'One That Loved His Fellow Men': The Politics of Leigh Hunt." CLB 97.1 (Jan. 1997): 2-8.

Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth. "King Cophetua and Coventry Patmore." VP 34 (1997): 477-92.

Compares a Hazlitt story with the life of Coventry Patmore.

Harling, Philip. "William Hazlitt and Radical Journalism." Romanticism 3.1 (1997): 53-65.

Jeffries, Stuart. "Arts: Two Thumbs Good? . . . Four Thumbs a Masterpiece?: Stuart Jeffries on the Death of Serious Criticism." Guardian (Sept. 6, 1997): 1:8.

Kramer, Hilton. "Critic's Notebook: William Hazlitt." Art & Antiques 14.10 (Oct. 1997): 102-3.

Lee, Eric McCauley. "'Titanus Redivivus': Titian in British Art Theory, Criticism, and Practice, 1768-1830." [Doctoral dissertation, Yale U, 1997], DAI, Vol. 58-07A (1997): 1134.

Though Reynolds' Discourses posited Venetian art as the Grand Style's antithesis, British artists continued to emphasize color while believing its use to be mechanical. This dissertation examines Titian as a model in British art theory, criticism, and practice from 1768 to 1830. William Blake denounced Venetian color and naturalism; Richard Payne Knight rejected academic art theory and formulated a color-oriented theory that placed Titian and the Venetians at the center of a new history of art; William Hazlitt formulated a color-oriented theory that recognized Titian, especially Titian the portraitist, as painting's greatest figure. "With Hazlitt, art theory finally accorded with British practice."

Mahoney, Charles. "Periodical Indigestion: Hazlitt's Unpalatable Politics." Romanticism and Conspiracy. A Romantic Circles electronic edition (Aug. 1997): <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/conspiracy/concover.html>.

McKie, David. "Sod's Law Strikes the Bookshelves." Guardian (Apr. 9, 1997): 1:19.

Discusses the essays of Hazlitt.

Newlin, Jon. "Death Prattle." Times-Picayune (July 13, 1997): D7.

Alludes to Hazlitt's essay on the fear of death.

Paulin, Tom. "Juices of the Mind--William Hazlitt and the Idea of the Unfinished." TLS (Oct. 10, 1997): 15-17.