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1、ThisbookoffersthefirstthoroughgoingliteraryanalysisofWilliamCobbettasawriter.LeonoraNattrassexploresthenatureandeffectofCobbett'srhetoricalstrategies,showingthroughcloseexaminationofabroadselectionofhispolemicalwritings(fromhisearlyAmericanjournalismonwards)the
2、complexity,self-consciousnessandskillofhisstylisticprocedures.HerclosereadingsexaminethepoliticalimplicationsofCob-bett'sstylewithinthebroadercontextofeighteenth-andearlynineteenth-centurypoliticalprose,andarguethathisperceivedideologicalandstylisticflaws-incon
3、sistency,bigotry,egoismandpoliticalnostalgia-areinfactrhetoricalstrategiesdesignedtoappealtoarangeofusuallypolarizedreadingaudiences.Cobbett'sabilitytoimagineandaddresssociallydividedreaderswithinasingletext,thebookargues,constitutesapoliticallydisruptivechalle
4、ngetoprevailingpoliticalandsocialassump-tionsabouttheirrespectiverights,duties,needsandabilities.ThisrereadingrevisesaprevailingcriticalconsensusthatCobbettisanunselfconsciouspopulistwhosewritingsreflectratherthanchallengetheideologicalparadoxesandproblemsofhis
5、time.CAMBRIDGESTUDIESINROMANTICISMIIWILLIAMCOBBETTCAMBRIDGESTUDIESINROMANTICISMGeneraleditorsProfessorMarilynButlerProfessorJamesChandlerUniversityofOxfordUniversityofChicagoEditorialboardJohnBarrell,UniversityofYorkPaulHamilton,UniversityofSouthamptonMaryJacob
6、us,CornellUniversityKennethJohnston,IndianaUniversityAlanLiu,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraJeromeMcGannUniversityofVirginiaDavidSimpson,UniversityofColoradoCambridgeStudiesinRomanticismisaseriesoforiginalcriticalstudiesdevotedtoliteratureinEnglishfromthepe
7、riod1780-1830,writtenagainstthebackgroundoftheFrenchRevolution,theNapoleonicandAmericanwars,urbanisation,indus-trialisation,religiousrevival,anexpandedempireabroad,andthereformmove-mentathome.Booksintheserieswillhaveaninterdisciplinarybias,examiningforexampleth
8、erelationsbetweenliteratureandpolitics,science,philosophyandreligion;orlookingatgenderrelations,notionsofliteratureandliteraryhistory,asrevealedinRomanticwritingandthecritic
