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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 November 2009
      12 January 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511597602
      9780521460361
      9780521033428
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597602
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.528kg, 264 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.394kg, 264 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (11)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (11)
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    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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    ‘[This] valuable book makes it possible even for those who find Cobbett’s ideas in themselves too often naive, wrongheaded, or repellent, to continue to admire his art. It also goes far to account for Cobbett’s undoubtedly enormous influence in his day.’

    James Sambrook Source: Romanticism

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