Good questions. The most recent Penguin edition's well-annotated, and was designed to tie in to the editor Tom Paulin's biography of Hazlitt.
But yeah, a laptop's fine. All this info can be found, I just worry a person would stop bothering - see it as a chore.
You're enough of a history buff that you might not though. The same things that make Hazlitt annoying for the uninitiated make him a pretty great (if gloriously biased) trove of info on his time and place. And I'm probably overstating difficulties. Hazlitt's unread for the same reasons everyone else from his time who didn't write about bonnet-y courtship, wars or monsters is - it's not like a ton of people are reading Thomas De Quincey these days.
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Date: 2013-05-22 08:06 pm (UTC)But yeah, a laptop's fine. All this info can be found, I just worry a person would stop bothering - see it as a chore.
You're enough of a history buff that you might not though. The same things that make Hazlitt annoying for the uninitiated make him a pretty great (if gloriously biased) trove of info on his time and place. And I'm probably overstating difficulties. Hazlitt's unread for the same reasons everyone else from his time who didn't write about bonnet-y courtship, wars or monsters is - it's not like a ton of people are reading Thomas De Quincey these days.