Edmund Burke (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Ayling
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1729-1797
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Edmund Burke, Jane Nugent Burke, Richard Burke, William Burke, George III, Charles James Fox
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Revolutions, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Corruption, Heads of state, Monarchy
- Locales: England
Edmund Burke: His Life and Opinions, the latest in Stanley Ayling’s series of biographies of eighteenth century figures, reflects the author’s extensive knowledge of British history. Having completed biographies of King George III (1972), William Pitt the Elder (1976), and Burke’s contemporary Whig ally Richard B. Sheridan (1985), among others, Ayling places Burke securely within the cultural, political, and historical milieus of his own time.
In the United States, Burke has long enjoyed the status of political prophet and philosopher of conservatism, a view somewhat...
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