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Style and the nineteenth-century British critic : sincere mannerisms / Jason Camlot

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Camlot, Jason, 1967-
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Style and the 19th-century British critic
Published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
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1 online resource (194 pages).
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Contents
Introduction : sincere mannerisms -- The character of the periodical press -- The origins of modern earnest -- The downfall of authority and the new magazine -- Thomas de Quincey's periodical rhetoric -- The political economy of style : John Ruskin and critical truth -- The Victorian critic as naturalizing agent -- The style is the man : style theory in the 1890s.
Summary
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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0754692884 (electronic bk.)
9780754692881 (electronic bk.)
9780754693543 (electronic bk.)
0754693546 (electronic bk.)
9780754653110 (alk. paper)
0754653110 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
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