William Cobbett : the politics of style
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William Cobbett : the politics of style
(Cambridge studies in romanticism, 11)
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1995
- : pbk.
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Note
"First published 1995. This digitally printed first paperback version 2006" -- T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue" -- back cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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