The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain

by Sarah Zimmerman

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed to shape auditors' reading habits, burnish their own professional profiles, and establish a literary canon. Auditors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198833148
• ISBN13: 9780198833147
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"