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Author:

Camlot, Jason, 1967-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

194 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Criticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Periodicals--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English language--19th century--Rhetoric.
English language--19th century--Style.
Style, Literary--History--19th century.
Mannerism (Literature)

Notes:

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.

Series:

The nineteenth century

ISBN:

0754653110 (alk. paper)
9780754653110 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)132687660

LCCN:

2007020026

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)