Selected Bibliography:
Edmund Burke (1730-97)
Last revised 18 April 2000
Bibliographies
Students of Burke now have reliable scholarly editions of his
works and correspondence available to them. However, those
interested in detailed bibliographical (and biographical) study
of Burke should also consult the pioneering work of such scholars
as Thomas W. Copeland, Bertram D. Sarason, and H. V. F. Somerset
(see Gandy and Stanlis, pp. 19-34).
Primary Works
- William B. Todd, A Bibliography of Edmund Burke
(London: R. Hart-Davis, 1964; rpt. Foxbury Meadow, Godalming,
Surrey: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1982). A rigorous and
comprehensive bibliography of Burke's published writings, from
his earliest publications in 1748 to the last appearance of his
collected works in 1827. Todd includes a chronology of Burke's
writings and identifies works falsely attributed to Burke.
Secondary Works
- Clara I. Gandy and Peter J. Stanlis, Edmund Burke, A
Bibliography of Secondary Studies to 1982 (New York and
London: Garland Pub., 1983). The most comprehensive available
bibliography of secondary sources. Gandy and Stanlis list 1,614
items, dating from Burke's lifetime to 1982. Contains extensive
annotations of important studies. Indispensable for the advanced
student of Burke.
- Leonard W. Cowie, Edmund Burke 1729-1797: A
Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994). Cowie
lists some materials published since 1983 and provides general
information about various aspects of Burke's career.
Editions
Collected Works
- The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, gen. ed.
Paul Langford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981-). Textual editor
for the writings is William B. Todd. Projected at twelve volumes.
Many of Burke's most important published works are now available
in this edition, which also addresses the vexed problem of
Burke's parliamentary speeches, delivered in an age when verbatim
transcripts of parliamentary proceedings were not produced and
public reporting of debates was officially prohibited. Many of
those speeches appeared in an unauthorized, summarized form in
newspapers, letters, diaries, and elsewhere. The editors of this
edition have thus limited themselves to reproducing a "reasoned
selection" of Burke's numerous speeches.
- Vol. 1, The Early Writings, ed. T. O. McLoughlin and James T.
Boulton (1997). Contains The Reformer (1748), A
Vindication of Natural Society (1756), A Philosophical
Enquiry (1757-59).
- Vol. 2, Party, Parliament and the American Crisis, 1766-1774,
ed. Paul Langford (1981). Contains Observations on a Late
State of the Nation (1769), Thoughts on the Present
Discontents (1770), Speech on American Taxation
(1774).
- Vol. 3, Party, Parliament and the American War, 1774-1780,
ed. Warren M. Elofson, with John A. Woods (1996). Contains
Speech on Conciliation with America (1775), Speech on
Economical Reform (1780), Speech at Bristol Previous to
the Election (1780).
- Vol. 5, India: Madras and Bengal, 1774-1785, ed. P. J.
Marshall (1981). Contains Ninth Report from the Select
Committee [a report detailing Britain's connections with
India] (1783), Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill (1783),
Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts (1785).
- Vol. 6, India: The Launching of the Hastings Impeachment, ed.
P. J. Marshall (1991). Contains Articles of Impeachment
(1787), Speech on Opening of Impeachment (1788).
- Vol. 8, The French Revolution, 1790-94, ed. L. G. Mitchell
(1989). Contains Reflections on the Revolution in France
(1790), Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
(1791), Thoughts on French Affairs (1791), Remarks on
the Policy of the Allies (1793).
- Vol. 9, 1. The Revolutionary War 2 Ireland, ed. R. B.
McDowell. Contains Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-7),
A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796), Letter to Sir Hercules
Langrishe (1792).
Until the new Oxford edition of Burke's writings and speeches is
complete, readers will need to fill the gap by consulting one of
the nineteenth-century editions listed below.
- The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 16
vols., ed. French Laurence and Walter King (London: F. C. and J.
Rivington, 1803-27).
- The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Bohn's
British Classics, 8 vols. (London: Bell, 1854-89).
- The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, 12
vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1865-71; rpt. 1901).
- The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, in the
House of Commons, and in Westminster Hall, 4 vols. (London,
1816). An extensive but seriously inadequate edition of Burke's
speeches, which will be superseded, in great part, by the Oxford
edition (1981-). Many of Burke's speeches are also recorded in
Parliamentary History, vols. 16-31 (1766-94) and in The
Parliamentary Register (London: John Almon, 1775-80, and
London: J. Debrett, 1781-96).
- For Burke's contributions to parliamentary debates on
America, a more authoritative source is now available:
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting
North America, 1754-1783, ed. R. C. Simmons and P. D. G.
Thomas, 6 vols. (White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus International
Publications, 1982-87). Future volumes, covering the years
1776-83, are promised.
Selected Works and Anthologies
- Annual Register (London: Dodsley, 1759-). Burke
contributed extensively to this important periodical, though the
exact length and scope of his contribution are not altogether
clear. In all likelihood he personally edited and wrote large
portions of the first seven volumes (for 1758-64), and he
continued to hold an interest in the project thereafter. For an
account of the periodical and its contents, see F. P. Lock's
biography, 1:165-79 (below, under "Biographies").
- Edmund Burke, New York Agent: With His Letters to the New
York Assembly and Intimate Correspondence with Charles O'Hara,
1761-1776, Intro. and Part I by Ross J. S. Hoffman
(Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1956).
- A Note-Book of Edmund Burke, ed. H. V. F. Somerset
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1957). Publishes an early
notebook of miscellaneous pieces by Burke. Some of the pieces are
by William Burke, a close friend of Edmund's and possibly a
distant relation.
- Selected Letters of Edmund Burke, ed. Harvey C.
Mansfield, Jr. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984).
Individual Works
Philosophical Enquiry
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of
the Sublime and Beautiful, ed, James T. Boulton (London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, and New York: Columbia Univ. Press,
1958; rev. ed., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987). Also reprinted by
Notre Dame Univ. Press in 1967 and 1968. A modern critical
edition based on Burke's revised and expanded second edition of
1759. Boulton furnishes an extensive Introduction, in which he
surveys the intellectual background to the Enquiry and its
subsequent influence. The 1987 Blackwell reprint contains a
revised, but abbreviated Introduction.
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of
the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. Adam Phillips (Oxford and New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990).
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
- An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, ed. John M.
Robson, Library of Liberal Arts (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1962).
Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Thomas H.
D. Mahoney (New York, Liberal Arts Press, 1955). This edition
includes an analytical table of contents by Oskar Piest, which
appears in the text as headings and sub-headings. Since Burke
himself introduced no divisions into his text, Piest's headings
should be used with caution.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. William
B. Todd (New York: Rinehart, 1959). Reproduces the "Seventh
Edition" (actually the "tenth and final 1790 impression")
published by James Dodsley. This edition, Todd notes, is "the
last revised and attended by the author." The text as established
here by Todd has become the standard version and is followed in
the Oxford edition, vol. 8.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. and
Intro, Conor Cruise O'Brien (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin,
1968). Still in print, this edition contains an introduction in
which O'Brien explores the Irish dimension of Burke's response to
the French revolution, a subject O'Brien returns to in The
Great Melody (see below under "Biographies"). The text
follows Todd's 1959 edition.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. J.G.A.
Pocock (Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 1987). Pocock's
Introduction offers a first-rate exposition of the circumstances
that incited Burke to write this text, and of what he hoped to
say and accomplish in writing it. Places the Reflections
in the context of the larger political debates in late
eighteenth-century Britain. The text follows Oscar Piest's 1955
edition.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, World's
Classics Series, ed. L. G. Mitchell (New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1993).
- Other modern editions of the Reflections include those
published by Doubleday (1961), Dent (1964), and Viking (1982).
A Vindication of Natural Society
- A Vindication of Natural Society, ed. Frank N. Pagano
(Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1982).
Correspondence
- The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, gen. ed. Thomas W.
Copeland, 10 vols. (Cambridge and Chicago, 1958-78). Volume 10 of
this edition includes a chronological checklist of the
correspondence, an alphabetical list of the correspondences, and
a comprehensive index.
Archives and Depositories
- The major collections of Burke's papers are at the Sheffield
City Library and the Northamptonshire Record Office. For a
detailed list of manuscript and archival resources, see Leonard
W. Cowie, Edmund Burke 1729-1797: A Bibliography
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 16-25.
Selected Teaching Editions and Anthologies
It is commonplace to introduce anthologies of Burke's writings
with William Hazlitt's well-known remark that "the only specimen
of Burke is, all that he wrote." Given the huge range of Burke's
intellectual, literary, and political interests, it is difficult
for any anthology to do him justice. Of the general anthologies
below, perhaps the most successful in this regard is that edited
by Peter Stanlis.
- The Portable Edmund Burke, ed. Isaac Kramnick (London
and New York: Penguin, 1999).
- Edmund Burke on Government, Politics and Society, ed.
B. W. Hill (London: Harvester Press, 1975; New York:
International Publications Service, 1976).
- Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches, ed.
Peter J. Stanlis (Anchor Books, 1963; rpt. Gloucester, Mass.: P.
Smith, 1968).
- Pre-Revolutionary Writings, Cambridge Texts in the
History of Political Thought, ed. Ian Harris (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992).
- Selected Writings and Speeches on America, Library of
Liberal Arts, ed. Thomas H. D. Mahoney (Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1964). Brings together in one volume Burke's major
tracts and speeches on the American Revolution, including
Observations on . . . the Present State of the
Nation (1769), Speech on American Taxation (1774),
Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (1775), and
several shorter letters and addresses.
Biographies
Burke has had many biographers, but until recently no biographer
has had access to all the materials necessary to produce a
"definitive" account of his life. Earlier biographers -- those
writing before the 1930s -- had no access to Burke's private
papers and correspondence, and only in the last forty years have
modern bibliographies and editions of Burke's writings become
available. A definitive edition of the correspondence began to
appear in 1958, and a scholarly edition of the writings and
speeches is still in progress. The multi-faceted character of
Burke's intellectual, literary and political interests has proved
a further impediment to biographical completeness. A new
biography by F. P. Lock, currently in progress, promises to
become the standard account that has to date been lacking.
- Donald Cross Bryant,. Edmund Burke and His Literary
Friends (St. Louis, 1939). A useful source for material on
Burke's extensive connections with literary and intellectual
figures outside the realm of politics.
- Carl B. Cone, Burke and the Nature of Politics, 2
vols. (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1957-64). A solid
historical account of Burke's political career, in two volumes:
- Vol. 1, The Age of the American Revolution (1957);
- Vol. 2, The Age of the American Revolution (1964).
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Great Melody: A Thematic
Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke (Chicago,
1992). A biographical interpretation of Burke's career (rather
than a comprehensive account), focusing on the four great
"themes" that preoccupied him during his political career,
namely, America, France, India, and Ireland. Not always reliable
from a scholarly point of view. Pursues an interesting thesis
(though sometimes in an overly speculative way) that Burke's
identification with Ireland explains the controversial stances he
took on Warren Hastings in Indian and on the French Revolution.
An earlier, summary version of this argument can be found in
O'Brien's Introduction to the Penguin edition of the
Reflections (1968).
- F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke, Vol. 1: 1730-1784 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1998). A thorough account based on the available
evidence and sources in archives and libraries. A second volume
covering the final years of Burke's life is in progress.
- Nicholas K Robinson, Edmund Burke: A Life in
Caricature (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996). A splendid
collection of the many satirical engravings and caricatures that
Burke's high-profile and controversial career inspired.
- A. P. I. Samuels, The Early Life, Correspondence and
Writings of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke (Cambridge, 1923).
Criticism
Journals
- Burke Newsletter, published in Modern Age from
1959-61 (7 numbers); published as an independent quarterly from
1961 to 1967; continued thereafter as Studies in Burke and His
Time.
- Studies in Burke and His Time, a quarterly journal
devoted to Burke and his age, published from 1967 to 1978. In
that year it became a more broadly focused and theoretical
journal, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation.
Collections and Festschriften
- Steven Blakemore, ed., Edmund Burke and the French
Revolution: Bicentenary Essays (Athens: Georgia Univ. Press,
1992). A strong focus in this collection on the
Reflections. Examinations that recontextualize Burke's
writings on the French Revolution in the contemporary historical
context.
- Ian Crowe, ed., Edmund Burke: His Life and Legacy
(Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997). An eclectic collection of
essays published for the bicentenary of Burke's death. The
contributors to this collection illustrate the continued vitality
and relevance of Burke in contemporary political debate.
- Isaac Kramnick, ed., Edmund Burke (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974). Contains snippets from Burke's
writings, opinions of Burke voiced by his contemporaries, and
three modern essays written from different points of view on the
political spectrum.
Monographs and Articles
The list of Burke studies below is weighted towards the
scholarship of the last half century or so. For a more
comprehensive list of earlier studies, see the bibliography
compiled by Clara Gandy and Peter Stanlis.
Aesthetics
The subject of the sublime, in general, and Burke's
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and Beautiful, in particular, figures prominently in
the history and study of aesthetics, in critical studies of
eighteenth-century and romantic literature, and in literary
theory. The list of studies below is therefore highly selective.
James T. Boulton's Introduction to his edition of the
Enquiry, which provides a thorough overview of Burke's
text, is an indispensable starting point. For recent critical
work on the sublime, see New Literary History (Winter
1985) and Studies in Romanticism 26, no. 2 (Summer 1987).
- William P. Albrecht, The Sublime Pleasures of Tragedy: A
Study of Political Theory from Dennis to Keats (Lawrence:
Univ. of Kansas Press, 1965), pp. 39-51.
- Frans De Bruyn, "'Edmund Burke's Natural Aristocrat: The 'Man
of Taste' as a Political Ideal," Eighteenth-Century Life
11 (1987): 41-60.
- Tom Furniss, Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language,
Gender, and Political Economy in Revolution (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993).
- Samuel Holt Monk, The Sublime: A Study of Critical
Theories in Eighteenth-Century England (New York: Modern
Language Association, 1937; rpt. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan
Press, 1960), pp. 84-100.
- Ronald Paulson, Representations of Revolution,
1789-1820 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1983), pp. 57-73.
- Thomas Weiskel, The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the
Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ. Press, 1976).
- Neal Wood, "The Aesthetic Dimension of Burke's Political
Thought," Journal of British Studies 4 (1964): 41-64.
Literary, Cultural, and Rhetorical Studies
- Steven Blakemore, Burke and the Fall of Language: The
French Revolution as Linguistic Event (Hanover and London:
Univ. Press of New England, 1988).
- James T. Boulton, The Language of Politics in the Age of
Wilkes and Burke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, and
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1963). A close reading of
Burke's Reflections and a study of the pamphlet war to
which it gave rise, with special attention to William Godwin,
James Mackintosh, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Arthur
Young. Includes a checklist of publications spawned by the
Reflections (pp. 265-71).
- Donald Cross Bryant, Edmund Burke and His Literary
Friends (St. Louis, 1939). Contains valuable information
about Burke's many literary and intellectual friendships outside
the realm of politics.
- Gerald W. Chapman, Edmund Burke: The Practical
Imagination (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967). An
important literary study of Burke, synthesizing the whole range
of his writings.
- Alfred Cobban, Edmund Burke and the Revolt against the
Eighteenth Century: A Study of the Political and Social Thinking
of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey (London, Allen
& Unwin, 1929; second ed., 1960).
- Frans De Bruyn, "Edmund Burke's Gothic Romance: The Portrayal
of Warren Hastings in his Writings and Speeches on India,"
Criticism 29 (1987): 415-38.
- Frans De Bruyn, The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The
Political Uses of Literary Form (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1996). A study of Burke's use of eighteenth-century literary
genres and language in his political writings.
- Tom Furniss, Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language,
Gender, and Political Economy in Revolution (Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993). A reading of the Philosophical
Enquiry and the Reflections using current literary
theory to examine perceived contradictions in Burke's thought and
to work out their ideological implications.
- Paul Fussell, The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism:
Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1965).
- Peter Hughes, "Originality and Allusion in the Writings of
Edmund Burke," Centrum 4, no. 1 (1976): 32-43.
- F. P. Lock, Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in
France" (London, 1985). A useful introduction to the
Reflections. Lock outlines the genesis, contemporary
reception, and critical history of the book, as well as providing
an exposition of its argument and rhetorical technique.
- Christopher Reid, "Burke, the Regency Crisis, and the
'Antagonist World of Madness,'" Eighteenth-Century Life
16, no. 2 (1992): 59-75.
- F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke and the Practice of Political
Writing (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan; and New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1985). An illuminating analysis of Burke's use of
what might be called practical or professional genres (as opposed
to literary ones), such as the parliamentary speech or the legal
brief. Analyzes the process by which Burke worked up and prepared
his speeches.
- Dixon Wecter, "Burk's Theory Concerning Words, Images, and
Emotions," PMLA 55 (1940): 167-81. Discusses Burke's
theory of language in A Philosophical Enquiry into
. . . the Sublime and Beautiful.
- Linda M.G. Zerilli, Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in
Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press,
1994), pp. 60-94. Raises questions of gender in relation to
Burke's writings, focusing especially on his portrayal of women
in the French Revolution.
Political Theory
- Stephen H. Browne, Edmund Burke and the Discourse of
Virtue (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1993).
- David Cameron, The Social Thought of Rousseau and Burke: A
Comparative Study (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1973).
- Francis P. Canavan, The Political Reason of Edmund
Burke (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1960). Along with Stanlis,
Canavan sees Burke's political thought as fundamentally a
reflection of the natural law tradition of Aristotle and Aquinas,
a view that has occasioned sharp debate amongst Burke scholars in
the second half of the twentieth century.
- Stephen H. Browne, The Political Economy of Edmund Burke:
The Role of Property in His Thought (New York: Fordham Univ.
Press, 1995). An exposition of the importance and centrality of
property in Burke's political and economic thought.
- Alfred Cobban, Edmund Burke and the Revolt against the
Eighteenth Century: A Study of the Political and Social Thinking
of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey (London, Allen
& Unwin, 1929; second ed., 1960).
- James Conniff, The Useful Cobbler: Edmund Burke and the
Politics of Progress (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press,
1994).
- Cecil Patrick Courtney, Montesquieu and Burke (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1963; rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975).
- Frederick A. Dreyer, Burke's Politics: A Study in Whig
Orthodoxy (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1979).
A study that reads the whole of Burke's oeuvre as a fundamentally
coherent and consistent body of writings. Places Burke in a
Lockean Whig tradition.
- Michael Freeman, Edmund Burke and the Critique of
Political Radicalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, and Chicago,
1980).
- Bruce Frohnen, Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The
Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville (Lawrence: Univ. Press of
Kansas, 1993). A study of Burke as a political philosopher of
conservatism, engaging with such American political theorists as
Leo Strauss, Russell Kirk, and Irving Kristol.
- Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered (New
Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1967).
- Isaac Kramnick, The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an
Ambivalent Conservative (New York: Basic Books, 1977). An
interpretive biography of Burke. Argues in an overly schematic
way that as a consequence of unresolved psychoanalytic problems,
Burke was irretrievably ambivalent in his thinking and his
politics -- alternatively attracted and repelled by radicalism
and conservatism, bourgeois ambition and aristocratic privilege.
- C. B. Macpherson, Burke (Oxford, 1980). Views Burke
from the perspectives of Marxism and economic history.
- Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Statesmanship and Party
Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke (Chicago and
London, 1965). A historical and philosophical study of Burke's
contribution to the idea (and legitimacy) of the political party.
- Frank O'Gorman, Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy
(London, 1973). Argues that Burke's writings can better be
understood as pragmatic responses to specific political conflicts
than as containing an overarching system of political philosophy.
- Charles Parkin, The Moral Basis of Edmund Burke's
Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1956).
- J. G. A. Pocock, "Burke and the Ancient Constitution: A
Problem in the History of Ideas," The Historical Journal 3
(1960); rpt. in Pocock, Politics, Language, and Time: Essays
on Political Thought and History (New York: Atheneum, 1973),
pp. 202-32.
- J. G. A. Pocock, "Edmund Burke and the Redefinition of
Enthusiasm: the Context as Counter-Revolution," in The French
Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, vol.
3, The Transformation of Political Culture 1789-1848
(Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989), pp. 30-31.
- J. G. A. Pocock, "The Political Economy of Burke's Analysis
of the French Revolution," The Historical Journal 25
(1982): 331-49; rpt. in Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History:
Essays in Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the
Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985),
pp. 193-212.
- Bruce James Smith, Politics and Remembrance: Republican
Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville (Princeton:
Princeton Univ. Press, 1985).
- Peter J. Stanlis, Edmund Burke and the Natural Law
(Ann Arbor, 1958). Argues that the idea of natural law is a
fundamental underpinning of Burke's political thought.
- S. K. White, Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics, and
Aesthetics (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994).
Burleigh Taylor Wilkins, The Problem of Burke's Political
Philosophy (Oxford, 1967).
America
- Edmund Burke, New York Agent: With His Letters to the New
York Assembly and Intimate Correspondence with Charles O'Hara,
1761-1776, Intro. and Part I by Ross J. S. Hoffman
(Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1956).
French Revolution
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France provoked a
huge political debate in Britain in the 1790s. Some of the
published responses to Burke's polemic (by Paine, Mackintosh, and
Wollstonecraft) have become classics in their own right. For a
detailed list of printed responses to the Reflections, see
James T. Boulton, The Language of Politics in the Age of
Wilkes and Burke (London, 1963), pp. 265-71.
- Steven Blakemore, Burke and the Fall of Language: The
French Revolution as Linguistic Event (Hanover: Univ. of New
Hampshire Press, 1988).
- Steven Blakemore, Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the
French Revolution in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas
Paine, and James Mackintosh (Cranbury, N.J., and London:
Associated Univ. Presses, 1997).
- Marilyn Butler, ed., Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the
Revolution Controversy (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,
1984).
- James T. Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae (1791).
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791).
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of
Men (London, 1790).
India
- Frans De Bruyn, "Edmund Burke's Gothic Romance: The Portrayal
of Warren Hastings in his Writings and Speeches on India,"
Criticism 29 (1987): 415-38.
- Regina Janes, "Edmund Burke's Indian Idyll," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, ed. Roseann Runte, vol. 9
(Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1979).
- P. J. Marshall, The Impeachment of Warren Hastings
(Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965). A balanced historical
assessment which provides a useful corrective to Burke's own
highly partisan view of Hastings.
- Andrew McCann, "Edmund Burke's Immortal Law: Reading the
Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1788," in Cultural Politics in
the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 33-58.
- Frederick G. Whelan, Edmund Burke and India: Political
Morality and Empire (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press,
1996).
Ireland
- Michel Fuchs, Edmund Burke, Ireland, and the Fashioning of
Self (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1996).
- Thomas Henry Donald Mahoney, Edmund Burke and Ireland
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1960).
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