{"product_id":"edmund-burke-and-ireland-aesthetics-politics-and-the-colonial-sublime-hardback-9780521810609","title":"Edmund Burke and Ireland; Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (Hardback) 9780521810609","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEdmund Burke and Ireland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuke Gibbons (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521810609, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 October 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 14 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: '… this dynamic pioneering account of Burk's thought puts him among the best. Where Gibbons surpasses all pre-existing studies of Burke is in his broad coverage of eighteenth-century ideas of sympathy, the sublime and aesthetics, which does justice to Burke's stature as an intellectual.' The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Edmund Burke and the colonial sublime\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Politics of Pain: 1. 'This King of Terrors'\u003cbr\u003e Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions\u003cbr\u003e 2. Philoctetes and colonial Ireland: the wounded body as national narrative\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Sympathy and the Sublime\u003cbr\u003e 3. The sympathetic sublime: Edmund Burke, Adam Smith and the politics of pain\u003cbr\u003e 4. Did Edmund Burke cause the great Famine? Political economy and colonialism\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Colonialism and Enlightenment: 5. 'Tranquillity tinged with terror': the sublime and agrarian insurgency\u003cbr\u003e 6. Burke and colonialism: the enlightenment and cultural diversity\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Progress and Primitivism: 7. 'Subtilised into savages': Burke, progress and primitivism\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'The return of the native': The United Irishmen, culture and colonialism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004726923544,"sku":"9780521810609","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521810609i_1830abf4-7cd4-4891-91cb-e31ccb465987.jpg?v=1691368287","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/edmund-burke-and-ireland-aesthetics-politics-and-the-colonial-sublime-hardback-9780521810609","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}