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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke

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In his Enquiry-which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"-the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing sensibility of his time.

The introduction traces the main sources of Burke's ideas and establishes the nature of his originality. The largest section of the editor's introduction, however, examines the influence of the Enquiry. Major writers like Johnson, Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy, painters such as Fuseli and Mortimer, and critics such as Diderot, Lessing and Kant, as well as many other minor figures, recognized Burke's new insights, and in varying degrees assimilated them.

The second edition, revised by Burke himself, provides the copy-text, including changes between the first and second editions.



About the Author

Edmund Burke (1729-97) was elected as an MP in 1781. He championed the unpopular cause of Catholic emancipation and a great part of his career became dedicated to the problem of India. The French Revolution prompted one of his best-known works Reflections on the Revolution in France

The late James T. Boulton was Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham.




Book Information
ISBN 9780268000851
Author Edmund Burke
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint University of Notre Dame Press
Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm

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