Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading Edmund Burke
  • 1. Interpreting Political Culture in the Present Discontents
  • 2. Reading Virtue and Rhetorical Portraiture in the Speech on Taxation
  • 3. Enacting Rhetorical Judgment in the Speech on Conciliation
  • 4. Speech to the Electors of Bristol: The Space of Rhetorical Virtue
  • 5. Staging Public Virtue in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
  • 6. Political Virtue as Rhetorical Action in the Letter to a Noble Lord
  • Epilogue: Burke's Discourse of Virtue.