Patriotism and public spirit
Subtitle: Edmund Burke and the role of the critic in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
By: Ian Crowe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780804781275
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; Political and social views; Patriotism; History
Description: This is a study of the formative influences shaping the early writings of the Irish-English statesman Edmund Burke and an early case-study of the relationship between the business of bookselling and the politics of criticism and persuasion. Through a radical reassessment of the impact of Burke's 'Irishness' and of his relationship with the London-based publisher Robert Dodsley, the book argues that Burke saw patriotism as the best way to combine public spirit with the reinforcement of civil order and to combat the use of coded partisan thinking to achieve the dominance of one section of the population over another.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting inside Tully's Head; title: Unraveling the threads in Edmund Burke's vindication of natural society; title: Dodsley's Irishman : Edmund Burke's Ireland and the British Republic of Letters; title: Patriot criticism : from the ridiculous to the sublime in Burke's philosophical enquiry; title: Burke's history.