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Edmund Burke and Ireland : aesthetics, politics and the colonial sublime
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- Creator
- Luke Gibbons
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521810609, 0521810604
- OCLC
- ocm52286744
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-287) and index.
- 'This king of terrors' : Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions -- 'Philoctetes' and colonial Ireland : the wounded body as national narrative -- The sympathetic sublime : Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and the politics of pain -- Did Edmund Burke cause the Great Famine? Commerce, culture, and colonialism -- 'tranquillity tinged with terror' : the sublime and agrarian insurgency -- Burke and colonialism : the Enlightenment and cultural diversity -- 'Subtilized into savages' : Burke, progress, and primitivism -- 'The return of the native' : the United Irishmen, and culture, and colonialism