This ambitious and timely book reconceives style as having the capacity to clarify or generate thinking, rather than merely being something linguistic or ornamental. The volume surveys non-fiction prose of twenty authors of the nineteenth-century to reimagine the interplay between thinking, thinkers, style, and stylists. making a wonderful case not only for twenty prose stylists of the long nineteenth century, from Coleridge to T.S. Eliot, but also for the close analysis of prose more generally, as an illuminating and suggestive field of study.