Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 17901870
Subtitle: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521661324
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Irish Literature; Special Subjects In Literature; Politics and literature; Literary Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; British Isles; Ireland; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English prose literature; General; 19th century; English fiction; History; Irish authors
First sentence: Just after William Fitzwilliam arrived in Dublin in January 1795 to take up his short-lived post as Lord Lieutenant, Edmund Burke wrote a letter to a member of the Irish Parliament in which he posed his fundamental concern of that revolutionary decade: "My whole politicks, at present, center in one point; and to this the merit or demerit of every measure, (with me) is referable: that is, what will most promote or depress the Cause of Jacobinism?"