An Address, to the Hon. Edmund Burke from the Swinish Multitude

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An Address, to the Hon. Edmund Burke from the Swinish Multitude
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AuthorJames Parkinson
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitics
Publication date
1793
Pages28 (first edition)

An Address, to the Hon. Edmund Burke. from the Swinish Multitude was a widely reviewed pamphlet by James Parkinson published in 1793 under his pseudonym "Old Hubert" in response and criticism to Edmund Burke's use of the phrase "swinish multitude" in his 1790 book Reflections on the Revolution in France.[1][2]

E. P. Thompson quotes Parkinson's following passage from the pamphlet, in his The Making of the English Working Class:[3]

"Whilst ye are… gorging yourselves at troughs filled with the daintiest wash; we, with our numerous train of porkers, are employed, from the rising to the setting sun, to obtain the means of subsistence, by… picking up a few acorns"

References[]

  1. ^ Roland Bartel (1969). "Shelley and Burke's Swinish Multitude". Keats-Shelley Journal. Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc. Vol. 18 (1969): 4–9. JSTOR 30212678. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Darren Howard (2008). "Necessary Fictions: The "Swinish Multitude" and the Rights of Man". Studies in Romanticism. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer, 2008) (2): 161–178. JSTOR 25602140. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ E. P. Thompson (1991). "Chapter 4". The Making of the English Working Class. ISBN 0-14-013603-7.

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