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Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime
Luke Gibbons
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hardcover. This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 577. This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 577.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521810609
SKU
KMK0025249
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About Luke Gibbons
Luke Gibbons is Professor of English, and Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has written extensively on Irish literature, the visual arts and popular culture. He is the author of Transformations in Irish Culture (1996) and The Quiet Man (2002), and co-author of Cinema and Ireland (1988).
Reviews for Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime
Review of the hardback: '… dazzling investigation of the Irish roots of Burke's thought which ranged from ideas of terror and the sublime to the wounded body and the Great Famine. An intellectual feast.' Terry Eagleton, Irish Times Review of the hardback: 'This new book on Burke, by Luke Gibbons of Notre Dame University, goes a long way towards resolving ... Read more