Edmund Burke, The Funeral Monument and the Making of a Providential Elite
This article concerns Edmund's Burke's role in the creation of funerary monuments. The aim has been to analyse Burke's vision of his place in national history through this vehicle. It is because monuments were directed at communicating with posterity that they form an excellent means...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Wales Press
[2019]
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The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-82 |
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Burke, Edmund 1729-1797
/ Great Britain
/ Tomb
/ Monument
/ Custom
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles |
| Further subjects: | B
Burke
B Providence B MONUMENT B Biography B Revolution |
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| Summary: | This article concerns Edmund's Burke's role in the creation of funerary monuments. The aim has been to analyse Burke's vision of his place in national history through this vehicle. It is because monuments were directed at communicating with posterity that they form an excellent means of gauging where their commissioners felt they stood in the grand sweep of national history. Burke, I argue, revealed much about his vision of how Britain ought to develop through his involvement in making funerary monuments. More specifically, the article concerns Burke's belief that some of his friends were agents of providence, whose higher purpose was to enact God's will that Britain should become a prime imperial power. He imagined that the monuments he helped to create would endure in order to vindicate his sense that his circle were at once blessed and a blessing to the nation. The text traces Burke's involvement in commissioning important tombs, and writing inscriptions, form the early 1780s to his death in 1797. One function is to set in context the story of his involvement in the commemoration of David Garrick in the period between 1793 and 1797. The article contains a description of the part taken by Burke in the conspicuous commemoration of the so called Literary Club, of which Garrick was a member. It sets out to show how Burke regarded this circle of men as a 'providential elite'. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-4525 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
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