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Palgrave MacMillan Hazlitt the Dissenter Religion Philosophy and Politics 1766-1816 2014 Edition by Stephen Burley
Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Table of contents :- Introduction 1. William Hazlitt (1737-1820) and the Unitarian Controversy 2. 'A Slaughter-House of Christianity': New College Hackney (1786-96) 3. 'A New System of Metaphysics' 4. Retrospective Radicalism: Pitt, Patriotism, and Population Conclusion