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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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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.
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