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William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
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“James Grande’s engaging and beautifully written narrative blends stories from William Cobbett’s life and letters along with scholarly analysis of highlights from Cobbett’s twenty million published words. … Like Cobbett Grande cares about language. But he’s a better writer. This is a model for students and academics looking for a style to emulate.” (John Gardner, Notes and Queries, Vol. 63 (2), June, 2016)
“James Grande’s conceptually nuanced and compelling study adds an epistolary dimension to the range of recent scholarship engaging with Cobbett’s multifaceted cultural project. … William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England significantly develops what is already a formidable body of scholarship on the most influential contemporary English prose writer of the Romantic period. … this major new study is more than simply a synthesis and presentation of valuable archival research.” (Alex Benchimol, The BARS Review, Issue 48, Autumn, 2016)
"Grande... sees borad coherence in Cobbett's career, and is as interested in continuity as he is in contradiction. Such an approach runs the risk of smoothing complexity too absolutely; he avoids this by rooting his argument in sensitive readings of Cobbett's private correspondence as well as his published work. The archival basis of the book allows Grande to chart the connections between Cobbett's disparate body of work in ways which are both imaginative and illuminating." Daisy Hay, Times Literary Supplement
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About the author
James Grande is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London, UK. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oxford and worked as a research assistant on the digital edition of William Godwin's diary (2010). He is one of the editors of The Opinions of William Cobbett (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England
Book Subtitle: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835
Authors: James Grande
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380081
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38007-4Published: 30 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47910-8Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38008-1Published: 12 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 250
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cultural Theory