Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 584 g
The Politics of Style
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 584 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
ISBN: 978-0-521-46036-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book offers a thoroughgoing literary analysis of William Cobbett as a writer. Leonora Nattrass explores the nature and effect of Cobbett's rhetorical strategies, showing through close examination of a broad selection of his polemical writings (from his early American journalism onwards) the complexity, self-consciousness and skill of his stylistic procedures. Her close readings examine the political implications of Cobbett's style within the broader context of eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century political prose, and argue that his perceived ideological and stylistic flaws - inconsistency, bigotry, egoism and political nostalgia - are in fact rhetorical strategies designed to appeal to a range of usually polarized reading audiences. This re-reading revises a critical concensus that Cobbett is an unselfconscious populist whose writings reflect rather than challenge the ideological paradoxes and problems of his time.
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Acknowledgements; A chronology of Cobbett's life; Introduction: change and continuity; Part I. The Creation of Cobbett: 1. Early writings 1792–1800; 2. A version of reaction; 3. Oppositional styles 1804–1816; 4. Representing Old England; Part II. Cobbett and His Audience: 5. Dialogue and debate; 6. A radical history; 7. Tracts and teaching; 8. Constituting the nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
