Author: GIBBONS, LUKE
Title: Edmund Burke and Ireland : aesthetics, politics and the colonial sublime
Description: Cambridge. UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; xiv. 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-287) and index. Contents; Introduction: Edmund Burke and the colonial sublime; Part I. The Politics of Pain: 1. 'This King of Terrors'; Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions; 2. Philoctetes and colonial Ireland: the wounded body as national narrative; Part II. Sympathy and the Sublime; 3. The sympathetic sublime: Edmund Burke. Adam Smith and the politics of pain; 4. Did Edmund Burke cause the great Famine? Political economy and colonialism; Part III. Colonialism and Enlightenment: 5. 'Tranquillity tinged with terror': the sublime and agrarian insurgency; 6. Burke and colonialism: the enlightenment and cultural diversity; Part IV. Progress and Primitivism: 7. 'Subtilised into savages': Burke. progress and primitivism; 8. 'The return of the native': The United Irishmen. culture and colonialism. Summary; This pioneering study of Burke's engagement with Irish politics and culture argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his lifelong political concerns. The concept of the sublime. which lay at the heart of his aesthetics. addressed itself primarily to the experience of terror. and it is this spectre that haunts Burke's political imagination throughout his career. Luke Gibbons argues that this found expression in his preoccupation with political terror. whether in colonial Ireland and India. or revolutionary America and France. Burke's preoccupation with violence. sympathy and pain allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment. but from a position no less committed to the plight of the oppressed. and to political emancipation. This major reassessment of a key political and cultural figure will appeal to Irish studies and Post-Colonial specialists. political theorists and Romanticists. Subjects; Burke. Edmund (1729-1797) - Homes and haunts - Ireland. Burke. Edmund (1729-1797) - Knowledge - Ireland. Burke. Edmund (1729-1797) - Aesthetics. Burke. Edmund (1729-1797) - Views on Ireland. Burke. Edmund (1729-1797) - Political and social views. Burke. Edmund (1729-1797) - Studies. Political scientists - Great Britain - Biography. Statesmen - Great Britain - Biography. Imperialism - History - 18th century. Political science - Philosophy. Sublime. The - Social conditions - 18th century. Politics and culture - Ireland. Sublime. The - Social history - 18th century. Ireland - Politics and government - 18th century. Ireland - Intellectual life - 18th century. Ireland - History. Literary theory ; Politics & government. Litierary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0521810604. Weight in Kg appr.:

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