William Cobbett The Politics of Style |
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Author:
| Nattrass, Leonora |
Contribution by:
| Butler, Marilyn Chandler, James |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-03342-8 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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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 onwards. 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...
More DescriptionThis 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 onwards. 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 SH inconsistency, bigotry, egoism and political nostalgia SH are in fact strategies designed to appeal to a range of usually polarised reading audiences.