William Cobbett: The Politics of Style (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521460361)

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, through close examination of a broad selection of his polemical writings from his early American journalism onward. She examines the political implications of Cobbett's style within the broader context of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century political prose, and argues that his perceived ideological and stylistic flaws--inconsistency, bigotry, egoism and political nostalgia--are in fact strategies designed to appeal to a range of usually polarized reading audiences.

Author: L. Nattrass,Leonora Nattrass
ISBN-10: 0521460360
ISBN-13: 9780521460361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/1995
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.26w x 0.96d