Edmund Burke and Ireland Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime |
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| Author:
| Gibbons, Luke |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-81060-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. Burke's preoccupation with violence, sympathy and pain allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment. This reassessment of a key cultural figure will appeal to Irish studies specialists, political theorists and Romanticists.
This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. Burke's preoccupation with violence, sympathy and pain allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment. This reassessment of a key cultural figure will appeal to Irish studies specialists, political theorists and Romanticists.