Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.
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.
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