Author

Publication

2012 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, California

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780804781275
  • ISBN-100804781273
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011052150
  • OCLC Control Number771057325
  • Better World Books9780804781275
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Classifications

  • DDC323.6/5094109033
  • LCCJC176.B83 C76 2012
  • LCCJC176

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.

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Other Editions

  • Patriotism and public spirit: Edmund Burke and the role of the critic in mid-eighteenth-century BritainStanford University Press2012-01-01

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