Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language, Gender and Political Economy in Revolution

by Tom Furniss

Book Overview

This study develops a detailed reading of the interrelations between aesthetics, ideology, language, gender and political economy in two highly influential works by Edmund Burke: his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), and the Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Tom Furniss's close attention to the rhetorical labyrinths of these texts is combined with an attempt to locate them within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521055482
• ISBN13: 9780521055482
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"