Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic
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De Quincey's Essays
De Quincey's Theory
De Quincey's Work
De Quincey’s Essays
De Quincey’s Theory
De Quincey’s Work
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Inherent Artificiality
literary criticism methodology
Monthly Repository
National Biography
Nineteenth Century British Critic
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
nineteenth-century British literary criticism
Noctes Ambrosianae
Oral Past
Pall Mall Gazette
Pater's Stress
Pater’s Stress
periodical
Periodical Reviewers
Pragmatic Rhetoric
print culture history
rhetorical theory
Ruskin's Argument
Ruskin's Prose
Ruskin's Writing
Ruskin’s Argument
Ruskin’s Prose
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Stuart Mill
Suspiria De Profundis
Unpardonable Mannerism
Utter Unconsciousness
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Victorian periodicals
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- ISBN 9780815397236
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Apr 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression.
