The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form

By Frans De Bruyn

This study brings a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke's political writings. De Bruyn recontextualizes Burke's writings by exploring what the eighteenth century understood by the term literature' and by demonstrating how thoroughly he relies on the dominant literary discourses of his time, especially the satire and georgic/didactic modes, in composing his speeches and polemics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198121822
• ISBN13: 9780198121824
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"