Beschreibung:
Paddy Bullard is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
The first comprehensive, contextual account of Edmund Burke's techniques of political discourse, tracing the ideas behind his 'rhetoric of character'.
Introduction: Burke, rhetoric and ethics; 1. The ethical turn in early modern rhetoric, 1600¿1760; 2. Rhetoric in Ireland, 1693¿1765; 3. The Epicurean aesthetics of Burke's Philosophical Enquiry; 4. Episodes in the evolution of Burke's eloquence; 5. Reflections on the Revolution in France and the rhetoric of character; 6. Burke, Rousseau and the purchase of eloquence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.