Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Whale, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics and politics.

In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work.

This volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526186089
• Artikelnr.: 72333569

Autorenporträt

John Whale is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - John Whale 2. Rhetoric and representation in Burke's
Reflections - F. P. Lock 3. The Reflections refracted: the critical
reception of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France during the
early 1790s - Gregory Claeys 4. Between Burke and the union: reflections on
PRO: CO 904/2 - W. J. McCormack 5. Burke, popular opinion, and the problem
of a counter-revolutionary public sphere - Kevin Gilmartin 6. Cementing the
nation: Burke's Reflections on nationalism and national identity - Tom
Furniss 7. Burke, Toland, toleration: the politics of prejudice,
speculation and naturalization - Susan Manly 8. Reflections on the Act of
Union - Claire Connolly 9. Reflections and correspondences: the
unfamiliarity of Burke's familiar letter Notes on contributors Select
bibliography Index