William Cobbett : the politics of style

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William Cobbett : the politics of style

Leonora Nattrass

(Cambridge studies in romanticism, 11)

Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1995

  • : pbk.

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"First published 1995. This digitally printed first paperback version 2006" -- T.p. verso

"Paperback re-issue" -- back cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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 1804-16
  • 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.

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