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Patriotism and public spirit : Edmund Burke and the role of the critic in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
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Patriotism and public spirit : Edmund Burke and the role of the critic in mid-eighteenth-century Britain / Ian Crowe.
ISBN
9780804783354 (ebook) :
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Copyright Notice Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages)
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Summary
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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Language
English
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September 25, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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