Books by Luke Gibbons

3. A sense of terror from difference , as mirrored both in Burke’s aesthetics of the sublime and the voyages in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels .  Everyone is running around deeply afraid of “the other,” and this concern surfaces also in Burke’s fears for the French aristocrats.  The enthusiasms of the French revolutionaries reminded Burke all too much of the earlier Irish civil wars and rebellions and massacres, even though in both cases he knew the privileges of the nobles were not deserved.  Swift...