Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 / Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PDF)
'Electrick Communication Every Where'
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Mary Fairclough
Mary Fairclough is a Lecturer in the department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, UK. She is the author of The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (2013), and various articles on the intersection between literature, science and politics in the eighteenth century.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Fairclough
- 2017, 1st ed. 2017, 264 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 1137593156
- ISBN-13: 9781137593153
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.03.2017
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“This book is useful for those seeking to learn more about the personal, political, intellectual, and spiritual risks undertaken by those involved in the emergence of electrical discoveries and technologies. Literature, Electricity and Politics will interest scholars and students of the history and philosophy of science and intellectual history, as well as those eager to learn more about religious and political thought and the ideals of progress in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.” (Jessica Hamel-Akré, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 31 (3), 2019)
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