Talking with texts: Hazlitt's ephemeral style

Tristram Wolff

doi:10.1525/rep.2017.137.1.44

Talking with texts: Hazlitt's ephemeral style

Tristram Wolff^*

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This article considers how the essayistic style of William Hazlitt's printed texts produces, in its form, a critique of what it considers conservatism in speech and its uncritical reception. Situating Hazlitt in a longer history of thought that considers language a form of practical activity, I argue that the conversational character of Hazlitt's writing is calculated not to resemble speech, but rather to take aim at speech's false spontaneity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	44-67
Number of pages	24
Journal	Representations
Volume	137
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2017.137.1.44
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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