Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James MackintoshFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997 - 256 pages Intertextual War focuses on representations of Edmund Burke and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Burke's principal eighteenth-century respondents. Concentrating on the respondents' relevant works, the author reconstructs the intertextual war they were waging against Burke and the traditional eighteenth-century canon, illustrating how a variety of eighteenth-century texts and contexts ground their rebellious reading of the both Burke and the Revolution as they deconstruct the former and rewrite the latter. |
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Page 152
... Whig shame a belated Whig confession of the fiction foisted on the English people . This real Whig confession is also Mackintosh's original prosopopoeial fiction . He had earlier noted that , in the Convention debates , the Whigs wanted ...
... Whig shame a belated Whig confession of the fiction foisted on the English people . This real Whig confession is also Mackintosh's original prosopopoeial fiction . He had earlier noted that , in the Convention debates , the Whigs wanted ...
Page 154
... Whig words copied by Coke , Blackstone , Burke , and other canonical Whigs who impose the fiction of a paper pedigree actually signifying parliamen- tary ( i.e. , " conventional " ) slavery . Mackintosh again stresses the contra ...
... Whig words copied by Coke , Blackstone , Burke , and other canonical Whigs who impose the fiction of a paper pedigree actually signifying parliamen- tary ( i.e. , " conventional " ) slavery . Mackintosh again stresses the contra ...
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... Whig oligarchy criticized the restricted franchise and the corporation boroughs , but they still valorized the traditional notion of independence in their critique of what they called " Old Corruption " : the ability of the court to ...
... Whig oligarchy criticized the restricted franchise and the corporation boroughs , but they still valorized the traditional notion of independence in their critique of what they called " Old Corruption " : the ability of the court to ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
Wollstonecrafts Feminization | 26 |
Wollstonecraft and the Language | 40 |
Copyright | |
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