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| Titre : | 'No improper employment for a clergyman'; or what prompted Berkeley to issue a second, much-revised, edition of The Querist in 1750? (2020) |
| Auteurs : | Patrick KELLY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 35 2020) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 70-83 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | George Caffentzis's compelling account of why Berkeley published the three-part, anonymous Querist in 1735-7 poses the question of what impelled him to bring out a much-truncated, single-volume version of the work under his own name in 1750. Reading the 1750 autho's Advertisement in the light of the biblical quotation on the title page suggests that, despite his earlier failure, Berkeley had fresh reason to hope for political support for his project for a national bank to issue paper money that would oversome the problems of the Irish economy. This interpretation is corroborated by the close connections between the 1750 edition and hi Word to the WIse of 1749, and by the changes to the revised Querist. Any such hope, however, proved abortive, leading Berkeley to express his rage and frustration with Irish MPs in Maxims concerning Patriotism (1750), in terms reminiscent of the unpublished 1738 paper 'The Irish Patriot', in which he had vented his disappointment at his earlier failure. |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
