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.

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Stephen Burley has published widely on Romanticism and Rational Dissent. He is the editor of The Charles Lamb Bulletin and is a special subject editor on a major interdisciplinary project to produce a multi-volume edition of Henry Crabb Robinson's diary. He is Head of English at Headington School, Oxford, UK.

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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