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Thinking Through Style - Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Thinking Through Style - Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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What is 'style', and how does it relate to thought in language? It
has often been treated as something merely linguistic, independent
of thought, ornamental; stylishness for its own sake. Or else it
has been said to subserve thought, by mimicking, delineating, or
heightening ideas that are already expressed in the words. This
ambitious and timely book explores a third, more radical
possibility in which style operates as a verbal mode of thinking
through. Rather than figure thought as primary and pre-verbal, and
language as a secondary delivery system, style is conceived here as
having the capacity to clarify or generate thinking. The book's
generic focus is on non-fiction prose, and it looks across the long
nineteenth century. Leading scholars survey twenty authors to show
where writers who have gained reputations as either 'stylists' or
as 'thinkers' exploit the interplay between 'the what' and 'the
how' of their prose. The study demonstrates how celebrated stylists
might, after all, have thoughts worth attending to, and that
distinguished thinkers might be enriched for us if we paid more due
to their style. More than reversing the conventional categories,
this innovative volume shows how 'style' and 'thinking' can be
approached as a shared concern. At a moment when, especially in
nineteenth-century studies, interest in style is re-emerging, this
book revaluates some of the most influential figures of that age,
re-imagining the possible alliances, interplays, and generative
tensions between thinking, thinkers, style, and stylists.
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