The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

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Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture. FC Half title The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe Title Copyright Contents Series Editor’s Preface Elinor Shaffer Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations Chronology: Edmund Burke’s Life and Works Timeline: The Reception of Burke Introduction Peter Jones and Martin Fitzpatrick 1 The Reception of Burke in Ireland Martyn J. Powell 2 The Paradoxes of Edmund Burke’s Reception in America, 1757–1790 Mark G. Spencer 3 Edmund Burke and Rational Dissent Martin Fitzpatrick and Anthony Page 4 Some Nineteenth-Century Appraisals of Burke’s Reflections: From Sir James Mackintosh to John Morley Gregory Claeys 5 Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and his French Critics Jeremy Jennings 6 Edmund Burke and the Writings of Benjamin Constant Cecil Patrick Courtney 7 ‘The climacteric event in our history’: Aspects of Burke’s Reception in France Norbert Col 8 An Ambivalent Conservatism: Edmund Burke in the Netherlands, 1770–1870 Wessel Krul 9 The Reception of Edmund Burke’s Imperial Ideas Relating to India, or Burke, the Brahmin and the Hot-House Sunil Agnani 10 Did an Edinburgh Debate on Taste Delay Response to Burke? Peter Jones 11 Edmund Burke’s Physiological Aesthetics in Medico-Philosophical Circles and Art Criticism, 1757–1824 Aris Sarafianos 12 Burke’s Political and Aesthetic Ideas in Spain: A View from the Right? Lioba Simon Schuhmacher 13 The Reception of Burke’s Aesthetic Ideas in Italy: Translations as Thresholds of Interpretation Daniele Niedda 14 The Reception of the Enquiry in the German-Language Area in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: August Gottlieb Meißner and Johann Gottfried Herder Tomáš Hlobil 15 The Reception of Edmund Burke’s Aesthetics in Hungary Piroska Balogh 16 Varieties of Old Regime Europe: Thoughts and Details on the Reception of Burke Reflections in Germany László Kontler Bibliography Index