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The Romantic Crowd - Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Hardcover, New)
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The Romantic Crowd - Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as
an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which
disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous
disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic writers
explored sympathy as a disruptive social phenomenon, which
functioned to spread disorder between individuals and even across
nations like a 'contagion'. It thus accounted for the instinctive
behaviour of people swept up in a crowd. During this era sympathy
assumed a controversial political significance, as it came to be
associated with both riotous political protest and the diffusion of
information through the press. Mary Fairclough reads Edmund Burke,
Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, John Thelwall, William Hazlitt
and Thomas De Quincey alongside contemporary political, medical and
philosophical discourse. Many of their central questions about
crowd behaviour still remain to be answered by the modern discourse
of collective psychology.
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