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BL
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984244
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b738614
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| Main Entry
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Nattrass, Leonora.
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| Title & Author
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William Cobbett : : the politics of style /\ Leonora Nattrass.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1995.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ;; no. 11
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1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511597606
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: 9780511597602
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052103342X
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0521460360
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9780521033428
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9780521460361
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Abstract
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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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Cobbett, William,1763-1835-- Writing skill.
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Cobbett, William,1763-1835.
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Journalism-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Literary style.
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Polemics.
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Journalism.
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Literary style.
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Polemics.
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Politics and government-- Historiography.
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1789-1820, Historiography.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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941.07/3/092
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| LC Classification
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DA522.C5N38 1995eb
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