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- Title: Hazlitt's "Essayism".
- Author : Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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Hazlitt's place in the Romantic canon spans the range from impressionist to critic. This essay examines Hazlitt's "essayism," the totality of impressionistic/critical response constituting his practice as an essayist, and argues that his writings reflect not the primacy of either the critic or the impressionist but the speculative interplay of both. Hazlitt's own transition from crabbed philosopher to popular journalist emerges from the influence of writers like Francis Bacon and Edmund Burke ("an ingenious political essayist") and the eighteenth-century periodical essayists in whose writings, Hazlitt observes, "the philosopher and wit here commences newsmonger." Like Habermas after him, Hazlitt observes in his age a repositioning (and diffusion) of critical authority throughout society--a corollary of which is a peculiarly modern sense of himself as both a critic and a consumer of culture. Anticipating in this respect the critical impressionism of later critics of culture like George Simmel and the Frankfurt School, he argues from a radically critical orientation qualified, and in some sense necessarily compromised, by a half-fascinated, half-repelled immersion in culture. Mediating such widely-separated categories of response is the empirical discipline of the essayist, a practice that subsumes these categories under its versatile rubric. **********
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