The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke : : From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence / / David Bromwich.
David Bromwich’s portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke—a thi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Early Ambition and the Theory of Society
- II. The Sublime and Beautiful
- III. The Wilkes Crisis and Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
- IV. The American War
- V. The Loss of the Empire in the West
- VI. Democracy, Representa tion, and the Gordon Riots
- VII. In Defense of Politics
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll
- Notes
- Chronology
- Index