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A Revolution of Feeling - The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (Paperback)
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A Revolution of Feeling - The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (Paperback)
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In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke
called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in
sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals
concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more
productive, human emotions and relationships. The Enlightenment's
wildest hopes crested in the utopian projects of such optimists -
including the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the philosophers
William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, the physician Thomas
Beddoes and the first photographer Thomas Wedgwood - who sought to
reform sex, education, commerce, politics and medicine by freeing
desire from repressive constraints. But by the middle of the
decade, the wind had changed. The French Revolution descended into
bloody Terror and the British government quashed radical political
activities. In the space of one decade, feverish optimism gave way
to bleak disappointment, and changed the way we think about human
need and longing. A Revolution of Feeling is a vivid and absorbing
account of the dramatic end of the Enlightenment, the beginning of
an emotional landscape preoccupied by guilt, sin, failure,
resignation and repression, and the origins of our contemporary
approach to feeling and desire. Above all, it is the story of the
human cost of political change, of men and women consigned to the
'wrong side of history'. But although their revolutionary proposals
collapsed, that failure resulted in its own cultural revolution - a
revolution of feeling - the aftershocks of which are felt to the
present day.
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