Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic

Sincere Mannerisms

Jason Camlot (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-9723-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.12.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	0-8153-9723-2 / 0815397232
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-9723-6 / 9780815397236
Zustand	Neuware