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William Cobbett - The Politics of Style (Hardcover, New)
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William Cobbett - The Politics of Style (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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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, 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. Cobbett's ability to imagine and to address socially
divided readers within a single text, the book argues, constitutes
a politically disruptive challenge to prevailing political and
social assumptions about their respective rights, duties, needs and
abilities. This rereading revises a prevailing critical consensus
that Cobbett is an unselfconscious populist whose writings reflect
rather than challenge the ideological paradoxes and problems of his
time.
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