Patriotism and Public SpiritPatriotism and Public Spirit is an innovative study of the formative influences shaping the early writings of the Irish English statesman Edmund Burke and an early case study of the relationship between the business of bookselling and the politics of criticism and persuasion. Through a radical reassessment of the impact of Burke's "Irishness" and of his relationship with the London based publisher Robert Dodsley, the book argues that Burke saw