The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume VIII: The French Revolution 1790-1794

A scholarly edition of the writings and speeches of Edmund Burke. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
This is the first edition of Burke's famous Reflections on the Revolution in France to appear for twenty years. No edition of his other writings on the Revolution has appeared for almost a century. In these years, the background against which Burke wrote has been much studied, throwing new light on his motives for commentating on France, and the reasons why his writings were both widely read and widely rejected. Published two hundred years after the outbreak
of the French Revolution, this edition shows that the issues raised by the most influential commentaries on that Revolution have yet to be resolved.