The Common Style of Common Sense

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1997 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Computers and the Humanities, volume 30, pages 373-379 (issn: 0010-4817, eissn: 1572-8412,

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Authors: Lee Sigelman; Colin Martindale; Dean McKenzie;

doi: 10.1007/bf00054020

The Common Style of Common Sense

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The extraordinary impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense has often been attributed to its style — to the simplicity and forcefulness with which Paine expressed ideas that many others before him had expressed. Comparative analysis of Common Sense and other pre-Revolutionary pamphlets suggests that Common Sense was indeed stylistically unique; no other pamphleteer came close to matching Paine's combination of simplicity and forcefulness.

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