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Author Nattrass, Leonora, author

Title William Cobbett : the politics of style / Leonora Nattrass
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 11
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 11
Summary 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
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Subject Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 -- Writing skill.
Journalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literary style.
Polemics.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056909 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511597602
0511597606
9780521460361
0521460360
9780521033428
052103342X