Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the 1790 publication of "Reflections on the Revolution in France", Edmund Burke became the first prominent intellectual to question critically the French Revolution and its course. Published to coincide with the bicentennial of both the Revolution and Burke's antirevolutionary opus, this book features essays by six scholars who approach both subjects from a variety of perspectives and methodologies...read more