College English Sep 2009

The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber’s Strunk and White

Catherine Prendergast

Abstract

The fiftieth anniversary of the Strunk and White edition of The Elements of Style is an appropriate occasion for considering its enormous popularity. Especially interesting is the esteem for the book held by Theodore Kaczynszki, convicted as the Unabomber. His embrace of Strunk and White’s values points to a kind of violence and primitivist nostalgia in their ideology of style

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College English
Published
2009-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20097950
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