Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author/Contributor(s):	Crowe, Ian
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	08/22/2012
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This study presents a radically fresh understanding of the intellectual formation and early literary career of the Irish-English statesman Edmund Burke by innovatively connecting the two key sites of Burke's pre-political career, Dublin and London, through Patriot debates over how the powers of a burgeoning press might be used to criticize and expose existing authority without jeopardizing order.