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Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime

2004; Canadian Association for Irish Studies; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/25515540

2816-2455

Julia M. Wright, Luke Gibbons,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

Introduction: Edmund Burke and the colonial sublime Part I. The Politics of Pain: 1. 'This King of Terrors' Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions 2. Philoctetes and colonial Ireland: the wounded body as national narrative Part II. Sympathy and the Sublime 3. The sympathetic sublime: Edmund Burke, Adam Smith and the politics of pain 4. Did Edmund Burke cause the great Famine? Political economy and colonialism Part III. Colonialism and Enlightenment: 5. 'Tranquillity tinged with terror': the sublime and agrarian insurgency 6. Burke and colonialism: the enlightenment and cultural diversity Part IV. Progress and Primitivism: 7. 'Subtilised into savages': Burke, progress and primitivism 8. 'The return of the native': The United Irishmen, culture and colonialism.