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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: William Cobbett
• Subtitle: The Politics of Style
• Author: Leonora Nattrass
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780521033428
• ISBN: 052103342X
• ID: 02019227
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 151 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2007

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