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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William Cobbett: The Politics of Style
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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William Cobbett: The Politics of Style
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William Cobbett: The Politics of Style
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521033428 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/01/2007 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism , #11 |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.94(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.67(d) |
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