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Kevin
Gilmartin is a professor of English at California Institute of
Technology, and visiting professor at the Centre for Eighteenth Century
Studies at York University in England. He is the author of Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1996) and Writing against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832 (Cambridge, 2007), and the co-editor with James Chandler of Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840 (Cambridge, 2005). His essays have appeared in such journals as Studies in Romanticism, ELH, and The Journal of British Studies,
and in several essay collections. His research interests include
Romantic literature, the politics of literary culture, the history of
the periodical press and of print culture, and intersections between
literary expression and public activism.
We talked recently at length about 18th century British essayist/critic William Hazlitt. Please listen here:
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