Style and the Nineteenth-century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 194 pagine
In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critics' changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot shows how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, and how the figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual.
 

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Sincere Mannerisms
1
The Character of the Periodical Press
13
The Origins of Modern Earnest
27
The Downfall of Authority and The New Magazine
53
Thomas De Quinceys Periodical Rhetoric
73
The Political Economy of Style
91
The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent
109
The Style is the Man
137
Conclusion
167
Bibliography
171
Index
185
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Jason Camlot is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

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