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: | USD $42.99 |
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.