The Spirit of Controversy

Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He was previously Professor of Literature at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford, and Margaret Candfield Fellow in English Literature at University College, Oxford. He has worked at the Australian National University and held visiting professorships at ANU, the University of Chicago and the H. E. Huntington LibraryJames Grande is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London. He was previously a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded Godwin Diary Project at Oxford, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at KCL, and a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project 'Music in London, 1800-1851'. He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House in Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.

• IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of William Hazlitt1: Reply to Malthus2: Fragments on Art3: Mr Kean's Shylock4: On Imitation5: On Gusto6: On the Elgin Marbles7: Mrs Siddons8: Mr Kemble's King John9: Coriolanus10: Macbeth11: Hamlet12: Character of Mr Burke13: On Court Influence14: On Fashion15: Minor Theatres16: On the Pleasure of Painting17: Character of Cobbett18: The Indian Jugglers19: On a Landscape by Nicholas Poussin20: The Fight21: On Familiar Style22: On the Spirit of Monarchy23: My First Acquaintance with Poets24: On Londoners and Country People25: Jeremy Bentham26: Lord Byron27: William Godwin28: Mr Wordsworth29: On the Pleasure of Hating30: Our National Theatres31: The Spirit of Controversy32: The Free Admission33: The Letter-BellExplanatory Notes

The ambitious attention to contextual situations, and the generous help afforded through introduction and annotations, make this the best selection yet for undergraduates, and the most affordable genuinely good edition for any Hazlitt reader.