%0 Journal Article %T Writing the ¡°Love Letter¡± from the Lack: The Economy of Absence in Hazlitt¡¯s Liber Amoris %A Peter B. FORD %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2006 %I %R 10.4000/erea.357 %X My state is this, that I shall never lie down again at night nor rise up in the morning in peace, nor ever behold my little boy¡¯s face with pleasure while I live ¡ª unless I am restored to her favour. (Hazlitt 78, 142)William Hazlitt¡¯s intensely ambivalent Liber Amoris functions on a number of different narrative levels. These narrative levels, however, seemingly lie outside much expressible literary value for many Hazlitt critics, both contemporaneous with Hazlitt and more contemporary with c... %U http://erea.revues.org/357