William Cobbett

The Politics of Style

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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, Romanticism

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Acknowledgements
A chronology of Cobbett's life
Introduction: change and continuity
The Creation of Cobbett
Early writings 1792-1800
A version of reaction
Oppositional styles 1804-1816
Representing Old England
Cobbett and His Audience
Dialogue and debate
A radical history
Tracts and teaching
Constituting the nation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Politics of Style

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