Contest for cultural authority : Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the distresses of the Regency
"Contest for Cultural Authority takes a fresh look at one of the scandals of literary history: William Hazlitt's harshly satirical reviews of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Regency press. Traditionally deplored as 'malignant' personal attacks on a former friend, Hazlitt's eight reviews of Coleridge's writings between 1816 and 1818 engage such landmark works as Christabel, The Statesman's Manual, and the Biographia Literaria, harnessing the rising power of Regency review-criticism to devastating effect. By taking seriously Hazlitt's own classification of these articles as 'political essays, ' and by relocating them within the turbulent public debates of the late Regency, Robert Keith Lapp discovers in them an indispensable critique of Coleridge's conservative response to the post-Waterloo crisis known as the 'Distresses of the Country'"--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich., 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
205 pages ; 24 cm
9780814328330, 0814328334
41465378
Introduction
Vigilant Auditor: Hazlitt's Regency Reviews of Coleridge
Common Sense and Humanity: Hazlitt's Review of the Christabel Volume
Pretending to Write Nonsense: Hazlitt's Preview of The Statesman's Manual
Preaching to the Learned: Coleridge and The Statesman's Manual
Two Classes of Public Opinion: Hazlitt's Examiner and Edinburgh Reviews of The Statesman's Manual
Interrogating the Romantic Ideology: Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the "Wat Tyler Affair"
History and Particular Facts: Hazlitt's Review of the Biographia Literaria
Brutus's Love to Caesar: Hazlitt's Writings on Coleridge, 1818-1819
Epilogue: The Cause of Civil and Religious Liberty: Hazlitt's Writings on Coleridge, 1820-1825