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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Edmund Burke; Edmund Burke |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
F P Lock |
ISBN: | 9780199541539 0199541531 0198206763 9780198206767 |
OCLC Number: | 277068184 |
Notes: | Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. |
Description: | pages cm |
Contents: | V. 1. 1730-1784 -- v. 2. 1784-1797. |
Other Titles: | 1784-1797 |
Responsibility: | F.P. Lock. Vol. 2, 1784-1797. |
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[A] meticulous and massive biography...Helped by the bedrock of collected scholarly editions of Burke's letters, writings and speeches, he can raise this splendid monument. Refreshingly free of jargon and interpretative whimsies - he nods ritually to 'otherness and alienation' only once - this is a study which will endure. * Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement * F.P. Lock's monumental biography...involve a full exposition of his political philosophy...he has immersed himself in the manuscripts, editions and variants of Burke's writings to chart the development of his views. * Chris Jones British Association for Romantic Studies * With this fine volume, Professor Lock brings to a conclusion his distinguished biography of one of the most important political thinkers of eighteenth-century Europe...impressive...an outstanding study, which will for the foreseeable future remain the standard authority on Burke's career. It has the merits of lucidity, accessibility and depth of learning, and it leaves historians very much in its author's debt. * G.M. Ditchfield, The English Historical Review * Read more...

