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...
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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 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. Cover -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sincere Mannerisms -- 1 The Character of the Periodical Press -- 2 The Origins of Modern Earnest -- 3 The Downfall of Authority and The New Magazine -- 4 Thomas De Quincey's Periodical Rhetoric -- 5 The Political Economy of Style: John Ruskin and Critical Truth -- 6 The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent -- 7 The Style is the Man: Style Theory in the 1890s -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Cover; Contents; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Sincere Mannerisms; 1 The Character of the Periodical Press; 2 The Origins of Modern Earnest; 3 The Downfall of Authority and The New Magazine; 4 Thomas De Quincey's Periodical Rhetoric; 5 The Political Economy of Style: John Ruskin and Critical Truth; 6 The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent; 7 The Style is the Man: Style Theory in the 1890s; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
