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… to Tories and opponents to the Revolution as a perversion of true British manners and sociability. They followed in that Edmund Burke, one of the main inspirers of the renewal of conservative political philosophy, who had famously called the British … 1798), reprinted in William Gifford (ed.), Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin [1799] (London: J. Wright, 1801), p. 233-256. 13 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790], ed. L. G. Mitchell, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, …

… Richard Price, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Sheridan , John Horne Tooke and Catharine Macaulay, all mobilised against Edmund Burke, the author of an impactful anti-revolutionary pamphlet in 1790 ( Reflections on the Revolution in France ). Image … the lens of English culture. References to British authors (including key figures such as Shakespeare, Sterne, Pope and Burke) and comparisons between French and English sociabilities (individuals, practices, places, objects, etc.) are …

… Streatham, some of whom would rise to fame, or had already achieved eminence, such as Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney , who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the …

… raging debates over freedom and the nature of the government following the Fall of the Bastille and the publication of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) . With the breakdown of the corporate structures and the collapse … 11 . Journal de Paris, 18 janvier 1790. Helen Maria Williams ’s Letters Written in France , published the same year as Burke’s anti-revolutionary pamphlet, offers a literary account of this dream of social happiness, of man’s regeneration …

… honneur. Grande admiratrice de Shakespeare, elle assiste à une représentation d’ Hamlet  au Théâtre Royal du Haymarket. Edmund Burke lui fait visiter Oxford, où elle admire le vitrail réalisé par Reynolds pour Christ Church. Elle se recueille sur … et à Bath, elle assiste presque quotidiennement aux représentations théâtrales. La comtesse gagne ensuite Bury St. Edmunds et réside plusieurs mois dans le Suffolk. Ce second voyage a donc été l’occasion pour elle, outre la pratique de …

… they proceeded, and which sustain the whole. ( Prose I, 340) The individual, Wordsworth argues, is not only tied to his Burkean ‘platoon’, 7  he or she is also caught up in a nest of ‘concentric circles’ that connect them to the nation, and … not on the independence, but on the  inter dependence of private and public concerns, of nature, man, and society. 7 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. L. G. Mitchell (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), …