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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823326503321

Autore

Burke Edmund <1729-1797.>

Titolo

Further reflections on the revolution in France / / Edmund Burke ; edited by Daniel E. Ritchie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis : , : Liberty Fund, , 1992

©1992

ISBN

1-61487-783-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 343 pages) : portrait

Altri autori (Persone)

RitchieDaniel E

Disciplina

944.04

Soggetti

Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Foreign public opinion, British

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Edmund Burke, Further Reflections on the Revolution in France ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents, p. v ""; ""Foreword, p. vii ""; ""Editor's Note, p. xxi ""; ""List of Short Titles, p. xxiii ""; ""Further Reflections on the Revolution in France ""; ""1. Letter to Charles-Jean-Francois Depont, p. 3 ""; ""2. Letter to Philip Francis, p. 19 ""; ""3. A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, p. 27 ""; ""4. An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, p. 73 ""; ""5. Thoughts on French Affairs, p. 203 ""; ""6. Letter to William Elliott, p. 257 "" ""7. A Letter to a Noble Lord, p. 277 """"Index, p. 327 ""

Sommario/riassunto

In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there, and Burke continued to take pen in hand against the Jacobins until his death in 1797. This new collection brings together for the first time Burke's most important essays and letters on the French Revolution. There are seven items in the collection. Taken together, they anticipate, refine, and embellish Burke's Reflections. Included are Burke's "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly," in which he assails Jean Jacques Rousseau, the patron saint of the French Revolution; Burke's "Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs," in which he presents his classic defense of the Glorious



Revolution of 1688; and his "A Letter to a Noble Lord," in which he defends his life and career against his detractors and, according to John Morley, writes "the most splendid repartee in the English language."