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.
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