Style and the nineteenth-century British critic
Subtitle: sincere mannerisms
By: Jason Camlot.
Series: The nineteenth century series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754653110
Subjects: English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric; English language -- 19th century -- Style; Style, Literary -- History -- 19th century; Mannerism (Literature)
Other titles: Style and the 19th-century British critic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: sincere mannerisms; title: The character of the periodical press; title: The origins of modern earnest; title: The downfall of authority and the new magazine; title: Thomas de Quincey's periodical rhetoric; title: The political economy of style: John Ruskin and critical truth; title: The Victorian critic as naturalizing agent; title: The style is the man : style theory in the 1890s.