Literary Genres of Edmund Burke - The Political Uses of Literary Form

Zusatztext Among the many virtues of this fine, clearly-written book is its variety. De Bruyn has new light to throw on Burke's Miltonic and biblical sublime ... Much of the excellence of The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke comes from the author's refusal to oversimplify. He is alert to Burke's own contradictions and complexities and never forces texts into a single generic framework ... He succeeds not just in presenting a more historicized Burke to literary critics, but also in offering a more subtly, and self-consciously, literary one to historians ... If Romanticism starts with Burke and Burke's reaction to the French Revolution, De Bruyn shows us that we can comprehend neither without the thorough understanding of eighteenth-century contexts that this book will help us to achieve. Zusammenfassung This title aims to bring a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke's political writings. The author demonstrates how thoroughly Burke relied on the dominant literary discourses of his time, especially the satire and georgic/didactic modes, in composing his speeches and polemics.

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• Authors: Frans De Bruyn, Frans De (Associate Professor of English Bruyn, Bruyn Frans De
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780198121824
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812182-4
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Political science & theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary essays, Political science and theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800