Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the nature of electricity dovetailed with discussions of the relation between body and soul, the nature of sexual attraction, the properties of revolutionary communication and the mysteries of vitality. This study explores the complex textual manifestations of electricity between 1740 and 1840, in which commentators describe it both as a material force and as a purely figurative one. The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate the mysteries of electricity, and traces the figurative uses of electrical language in the works of writers including Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall, Mary Shelley and Richard Carlile.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Mary Fairclough
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-59314-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-137-59314-8
Barcode:	9781137593146

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