TY - BOOK ID - 85466595 TI - William Cobbett : the politics of style PY - 1995 VL - 11 SN - 0511885040 0511597606 0521460360 052103342X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Rhetoric KW - Journalism KW - Style, Literary. KW - Polemics. KW - Propaganda KW - Public opinion KW - Literature KW - Style, Literary KW - Language and languages KW - Speaking KW - Authorship KW - Expression KW - Literary style KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Style KW - Cobbett, William, KW - Porcupine, Peter, KW - Peter Porcupine, KW - Jonathan, KW - Retort, Dick, KW - Cobbett, Wm. KW - Cobbet, William, KW - American, KW - Literary art. KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - Historiography. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literary style. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85466595 AB - 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. ER -