Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London''s cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period''s most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed to shape auditors'' reading habits, burnish their own profe...