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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mary Fairclough
R3,694 Discovery Miles 36 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Romantic Crowd - Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Hardcover, New): Mary Fairclough The Romantic Crowd - Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Hardcover, New)
Mary Fairclough
R2,580 R2,240 Discovery Miles 22 400 Save R340 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Paperback, Softcover reprint... Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 - 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Mary Fairclough
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Romantic Crowd - Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Paperback): Mary Fairclough The Romantic Crowd - Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Paperback)
Mary Fairclough
R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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