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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Getting inside Tully's Head -- 2. Unraveling the Threads in Burke's Vindication of Natural Society -- 3. Dodsley's Irishman: Burke's Ireland and the British Republic of Letters -- 4. Patriot Criticism: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime in Burke's Philosophical Enquiry -- 5. Burke's History -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Tully's Head Publishing Lists, 1754-57 -- Notes -- Index

This volume explores the place of aristocratic virtues and values in the modern democratic world. Essays examine aristocratic priorities and interpretations of historic and contemporary aristocratic assemblies as well as critiques of liberal or bourgeois virtues, democratic equality, and democratic institutions.