"Patriotism and Public Spirit " is an innovative study of the
formative influences shaping the early writings of the
Irish-English statesman Edmund Burke and an early case-study of the
relationship between the business of bookselling and the politics
of criticism and persuasion. Through a radical reassessment of the
impact of Burke's "Irishness" and of his relationship with the
London-based publisher Robert Dodsley, the book argues that Burke
saw Patriotism as the best way to combine public spirit with the
reinforcement of civil order and to combat the use of coded
partisan thinking to achieve the dominance of one section of the
population over another.
No other study has drawn so extensively on the literary and
commercial network through which Burke's first writings were
published to help explain them. By linking contemporary
reinterpretations of the work of Patriot sympathizers and writers
such as Alexander Pope and Lord Bolingbroke with generally
neglected trends in religious and literary criticism in the
Republic of Letters, this book provides new ways of understanding
Burke's early publications. The results call into question
fundamental assumptions about the course of "Enlightenment" thought
and challenge currently dominant post-colonialist and Irish
nationalist interpretations of the early Burke.
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