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William Cobbett: The Politics of Style

By Leonora Nattrass

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780511597602, 0521460360, 052103342X, 0511597606, 9780521033428, 9780521460361
LCC
DA522.C5 N38 1995
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1314426 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages
263\263
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book offers the first thoroughgoing literary analysis of William Cobbett as a writer. Leonora Nattrass explores the nature and effect of Cobbett's rhetorical strategies, through close examination of a broad selection of his polemical writings from his early American journalism onward. She examines the political implications of Cobbett's style within the broader context of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century political prose, and argues that his perceived ideological and stylistic flaws--inconsistency, bigotry, egoism and political nostalgia--are in fact strategies designed to appeal to a range of usually polarized reading audiences.

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