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- Title: Luke Gibbons. Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, And the Colonial Sublime (Book Review)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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Luke Gibbons. Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 304. $65.00. Edmund Burke and Ireland joins a mounting collection of recent works on British colonialism, on Ireland, and on the political resonance of Burke's aesthetics. Gibbons' distinctive contribution triangulates these topics in order to lay a course through Burke's career that will bring the arch-conservative of Reflections on the Revolution in France closer to today's critics of colonialism and of the Enlightenment rationale for empire. Admittedly "read[ing] against the grain" of Burke's political philosophy, Gibbons seeks roads less traveled in order more effectively "to integrate [Burke's] powerful aesthetic writings into his wider moral and political vision" (15). In doing so, he expects to reveal "a man deeply divided against himself" (xi). Although Burke sometimes disappears behind the various components in Gibbons' widely reticulating argument, he finally re-emerges, an avatar of suffering Ireland.