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Thinking through style : non-fiction prose of the long nineteenth century / Michael D. Hurley and Marcus Waithe

Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Additional Creators
Hurley, Michael D. (Michael Dominic), 1976- and Waithe, Marcus
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.`A Hare in every Nettle': Coleridge's Prose / James Engell -- 2.Charles Lamb...Seriously / Matthew Bevis -- 3.Keeping to William Hazlitt / Freya Johnston -- 4.`Pictures' and `Signs': Creative Thinking in Shelley's Prose, 1816--21 / Michael O'Neill -- 5.`The greatest irregular': Thomas Carlyle's Re-creative Purpose in The French Revolution / Ruth Scurr -- 6.John Henry Newman: Thinking out into Language / Michael D. Hurley -- 7.`Things Pressing to be said': Harriet Martineau's Mission to Inform / Valerie Sanders -- 8.Emerson and the Impossibilities of Style / Adam Phillips -- 9.Darwin's Theological Virtues / James Williams -- 10.`Just Proportions': The Material of George Eliot's Writing / Dinah Birch -- 11.Ruskin's Style of Thought: Animating Redescription in the Late Writings / Marcus Waithe -- 12.The Idea of Matthew Arnold / David Russell -- 13.Walter Pater's Dream Rhythms / Angela Leighton -- 14.Cashing in on William James / Philip Davis -- 15.Touch-and-go with Robert Louis Stevenson / Adrian Poole -- 16.Oscar Wilde: Thinking Style / Hugh Haughton -- 17.Vernon Lee's Handling of Words / Catherine Maxwell -- 18.Christmas and the Superman: Chesterton's Levitations / Simon Jarvis -- 19.Virginia Woolf: Writing and the Ordinary Mind / Susan Sellers -- 20.Vexing the Thoughtless: T. S. Eliot's Early Criticism / Stefan Collini.
Summary
This ambitious and timely text reconceives style as having the capacity to clarify or generate thinking, rather than merely being something linguistic or ornamental. It surveys non-fiction prose of 20 authors of the 19th-century to reimagine the interplay between thinking, thinkers, style and stylists.
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ISBN
9780191801273 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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