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1 online resource (322 pages) |
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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; v. 4 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 4
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Introduction; Part One: Aesthetics for a bourgeois revolution; 1 A theory not to be revoked: CA Philosophical Enquiry; The Eighteenth-Century Sublime; Physiological Speculations; The Beautiful; 2 Labour and luxury: aesthetics and the division of labour; The English Malady: Money, Madness, Luxury; The Labour of Philosophy; 3 The political economy of taste: limiting the sublime; 4 The labour and profit of language; The Arbitrary Power of Language; Part Two: Reflections on a radical revolution |
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5 The genesis of the 'Reflections': resisting the irresistible voice of the multitudeGazing with Astonishment at a French Struggle for Liberty; Reflections in a Crisis; Immunizing the System Against the Democratic Sublime; Disseminating Contagion; 6 Stripping the queen: Edmund Burke's magic lantern show; Setting the Scene: Burke's Triumph Over Richard Price; The Rise and Fall of Marine Antoinette; 7 A revolution in manners: chivalry and political economy; The Sublime as a Risque Joke; Cross-Dressing and Disrobing: Undoing Differences ; The Economy of the Supplement; Capitalizing of Tradition |
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Wollstonecraft's CritiqueThe Medicine of Today Becomes the Poison of Tomorrow; 8 Reform and revolution; The Necessary Resources of Superstition; Writing Prescriptions for the Body Politic: 1066 and All That; Reflections Upon Revolution and Reform; 9 Imaginary constitutions and economies; The Poetic Licence of Political Representation; Funding the Revolution: Promises, Promises; Ruinous Resources; 10 Speculation and the republic of letters; Taking to the Air on Paper Wings; Speculation in the Republic of Letters: Exploding Upstart Theory; Sanctifying Surplus: Hot Air; Notes; Indroduction |
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Political ideologies History |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 -- Aesthetics.
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Reflections on the revolution in France
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Sublime, The.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115099
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United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511553471 |
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9780511553479 |
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