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title	:	Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
author	:	Browne, Stephen H.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0817306765
print isbn13	:	9780817306762
ebook isbn13	:	9780585098050
language	:	English
subject	Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Criticism and interpretation, Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century--Historiography, Speeches, addresses, etc., English--History and criticism, Political oratory--Great Britain--History--18th century, Ethics--Grea
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PR3334.B4Z57 1993eb
ddc	:	824/.6
subject	:	Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Criticism and interpretation, Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century--Historiography, Speeches, addresses, etc., English--History and criticism, Political oratory--Great Britain--History--18th century, Ethics--Grea

Page i Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Page ii STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATION General Editors: E. Culpepper Clark Raymie E. McKerrow David Zarefsky

Page iii Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue Stephen H. Browne The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London

Page iv Copyright 1993 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 354870380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Browne, Stephen H. Edmund Burke and the discourse of virtue / Stephen H. Browne. p. cm.(Studies in rhetoric and communication) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8173-0676-5 (alk. paper) 1. Burke, Edmund, 17291797Criticism and interpretation. 2. Great BritainPolitics and government18th centuryHistoriography. 3. Speeches, addresses, etc., EnglishHistory and criticism. 4. Political oratoryGreat BritainHistory18th century. 5. EthicsGreat BritainHistory18th century. 6. Rhetoric15001800. 7. Virtue. I. Title. II. Series. PR3334.B4Z57 1993 824'.6dc20 92-46656 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available

Page v This Book is Dedicated to Margaret, Lovingly.

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Reading Edmund Burke 1 1. Interpreting Political Culture in the Present Discontents 11 2. Reading Virtue and Rhetorical Portraiture in the Speech on Taxation 27 3. Enacting Rhetorical Judgment in the Speech on Conciliation 45 4. Speech to the Electors of Bristol: The Space of Rhetorical Virtue 67 5. Staging Public Virtue in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings 83 6. Political Virtue as Rhetorical Action in the Letter to a Noble Lord 99 Epilogue: Burke's Discourse of Virtue 117

Page viii Notes 127 Bibliography 135 Index 141

Page ix Acknowledgments Chapter 1 originally appeared as "Edmund Burke's Discontents and the Interpretation of Political Culture," Quarterly Journal of Speech 77 (1991): 5366, copyright 1991 by the Speech Communication Association; used by permission. Chapter 3 originally appeared as "Burke's Speech on Conciliation: The Pragmatic Basis of Rhetorical Judgment," in Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric, ed. Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld, 5580 (Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1989), copyright 1989 by Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld; used by permission. Chapter 6 originally appeared as "Edmund Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord: A Textual Study in Political Philosophy and Rhetorical Action," Communication Monographs 55 (1988): 21529, copyright 1988 by the Speech Communication Association; used by permission. The following have contributed, each in their own way and some perhaps unknowingly, to the inception, development, and completion of this book: James R. Andrews, Thomas W. Benson, Edwin Black, Lloyd F. Bitzer, David E. Browne, John A. Campbell, James M. Farrell, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Dennis S. Gouran, G. Jack Gravlee, Robert S. Iltis, James R. Irvine, Fred J. Kauffeld, John Lucaites, Stephen E. Lucas, Thomas Rosteck, and Howard Weinbrot. To each I am grateful. My greatest debt is of course to Michael C. Leff, my friend and teacher still.

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