The Hazlitt Review

ISSN 1757-8299

The Hazlitt Society is pleased to announce the publication of The Hazlitt Review, an annual peer-reviewed journal, the first internationally to be devoted to Hazlitt studies. The Review aims to promote and maintain Hazlitt’s standing, both in the academy and to a wider readership, by providing a forum for new writing on Hazlitt, by established scholars as well as more recent entrants in the field.

Editor: Uttara Natarajan

Assistant Editors: Helen Hodgson, Michael McNay

Editorial Board
Geoffrey Bindman
James Mulvihill
David Bromwich 
Tom Paulin
Jon Cook
Seamus Perry
Gregory Dart
Michael Simpson
Philip Davis
Fiona Stafford
A.C. Grayling
Graeme Stones
Paul Hamilton
John Whale
Ian Mayes
Duncan Wu
Tim Milnes
 

Contents of the third issue (September 2010)

Ian Mayes and Duncan Wu on Michael Foot

Stephen Burley, ‘“In this Intolerence I Glory”: William Hazlitt (1737-1820) and the Dissenting Periodical’

Richard de Ritter, ‘“In Their Newest Gloss”: Hazlitt on Reading, Gender, and the Problems of Print Culture’

Marcus Tomalin, ‘“This Go-Cart of the Understanding”:
Contextualizing Hazlitt’s Criticisms of Logic’

Bálint Gárdos, ‘Hazlitt and the Common Pursuit’

BOOK REVIEW

Marcus Tomalin, Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt,
Language and Literature
, reviewed by Gregory Darty

 

Contents of the second issue (September 2009)

Tom Paulin, ‘Hazlitt's Influence on Dickens in Barnaby Rudge

Vidyan Ravinthiran, ‘The Liquid Texture of the Elgin Marbles: Hazlitt, Reynolds, and the Miltonic Sublime'

Ian Patel, ‘Hazlitt's Rhetorical Style’

Laurent Folliot, ‘On Translating Hazlitt into French’

David Halpin, ‘Hazlitt's Learning: A Real and Negative Education’

BOOK REVIEWS

Duncan Wu, William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man, reviewed by Stephen Burley

Maurice Whelan, In the Company of William Hazlitt: Thoughts for the 21st Century, reviewed by Jon Cook

Gregory Dart (ed.), Liber Amoris and Related Writings by William Hazlitt, reviewed by Richard de Ritter

Survey of Hazlitt Studies 2008

Contents of the first issue (September 2008)

David Bromwich, ‘Hazlitt on Shakespeare and the Motives of Power’

Uttara Natarajan, ‘Hazlitt and Kean’

Matthew Scott, ‘Hazlitt’s Burke and the Idea of Grace’

Mali Purkayastha, ‘Why Hogarth Mattered to Hazlitt’

Maureen McCue, ‘“A Gallery in the Mind”: Hazlitt, the Louvre, and the Meritocracy of Taste’

Kevin McCarra, ‘Hazlitt Enters the Ring’

Review of Hazlitt Studies 2007

The Hazlitt Review invites submissions for its 2011 issue.  Scholarly essays (4000-7000 words) and reviews should follow the MHRA style.  The Board is also happy to consider more informal submissions from Hazlitt’s lay readership.  E-mail  u.natarajan@gold.ac.uk or post to Uttara Natarajan, c/o Department of English & Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.  We regret that we cannot publish material already published or submitted elsewhere. 

Subscriptions, including membership of the Hazlitt Society: £10 (individual); £15 (corporate).  Overseas subscriptions: $24 (individual) or $35 (corporate). Cheques/postal orders, made payable to the Hazlitt Society, to be sent to Helen Hodgson, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU.

Enquiries to correspondence@williamhazlitt.org or by post to Helen Hodgson.