Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

John Whale

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781526186089
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics and politics.In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work.This volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies.

Table of contents

• Edmund Burke's: REFLECTION ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Series introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chronology
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rhetoric and representation in Burke's Reflections
• 3 The Reflections refracted: the critical reception of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France during the early 1790s
• 4 Between Burke and the union: reflections on PRO: co 904/2
• 5 Burke, popular opinion, and the problem of a counter-revolutionary public sphere
• 6 Cementing the nation: Burke's Reflections on nationalism and national identity
• 7 Burke, Toland, toleration: the politics of prejudice, speculation, and naturalization
• 8 Reflections on the Act of Union
• 9 Reflections and correspondences: the unfamiliarity of Burke's familiar letter
• Notes on contributors
• Select bibliography
• Index