William Cobbett
Subtitle: The Politics of Style (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780521033428
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Cobbett, William, --1763-1835--Literary art C; Cobbett, William,--1763-1835--Literary art; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In the previous chapter I suggested that the transgression of class boundaries is central to Cobbett's rhetorical authority, and that his early American writings precipitate this state of affairs as his conservative loyalties and literary success as Peter Porcupine briefly ally him with the English ruling class.