Edmund Burke and Ireland: aesthetics, politics and the colonial sublime

"The pioneering study of Edmund Burke's engagement with Irish politics and culture argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics and intimately connected to his lifelong political concerns. The concept of the sublime, which lay at the heart of his aesthetics, addressed...

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1. Verfasser: Gibbons, Luke (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2003
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"The pioneering study of Edmund Burke's engagement with Irish politics and culture argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics and 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 anxious aesthetics 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 postcolonial specialists, political theorists and students of Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-287) and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 304 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780521100946
0521810604
9780521810609

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