9781108034746

Burke

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This volume on Edmund Burke (1729-97), published in 1879 in the first series of English Men of Letters, was written by the general editor of the series, John Morley (1838-1923). Himself a politician as well as an author, Morley had previously published a 'historical study' of Burke in 1867, but emphasises in an introductory note that this book 'is biographical rather than critical' and is intended as a narrative life. Morley himself was a radical in politics, and his interest in Burke, who he does not hesitate to characterise on occasion as a narrow-minded reactionary, may seem surprising, but he greatly admired his subject's independent political stance, which he describes as a mixture of utilitarian liberalism and historic conservatism, unfettered by abstract doctrine, and which he believed might again come to dominate political discourse in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

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9781108034746

ISBN-10

1108034748

Weight

0.66 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.58 x 8.50 In

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$37.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

230 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2011-11-17



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