Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology : Language, Gender and Political Economy in Revolution (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Introduction; Part I. Aesthetics for a Bourgeois Revolution: 1. A theory not to be revoked: A Philosophical Enquiry; 2. Labour and luxury: aesthetics and the division of labour; 3. The political economy of taste: limiting the sublime; 4. The labour and profit of language; Part II. Reflections on a Radical Revolution: 5. The genesis of the Reflections: resisting the irresistible voice of the multitude; 6. Stripping the queen: Edmund Burke's magic lantern show; 7. A revolution in manners: chivalry and political economy; 8. Reform and revolution; 9. Imaginary constitutions and economies; 10. Speculation and the republic of letters; Notes; Index.