A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of dark satanic mills, in many ways so characteristic of literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides a fresh, revisionary accou...

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Beteilige Person:	Mee, Jon 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Chicago, London The University of Chicago Press 2023
Schlagwörter:	Geschichte 1780-1830 Englisch Literatur Industrielle Revolution
Zusammenfassung:	A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of dark satanic mills, in many ways so characteristic of literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides a fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences. In Networks of Improvement, Mee reads a wide range of texts-economic, medical, and more conventionally literary -with a focus on their circulation through networks and institutions. Mee shows how a project of enlightened liberal reform articulated in Britain s emerging manufacturing towns led to unexpectedly coercive forms of machine productivity, a pattern that might be seen repeating in the digital technologies of our own time. Instead of treating the Industrial Revolution as Romanticism s other, Mee shows how writing, practices, and institutions emanating from these industrial towns developed a new kind of knowledge economy, one where local literary and philosophical societies served as important transmission hubs for the circulation of knowledge
Umfang:	303 Seiten Illustrationen Breite 152 mm, Hoehe 229 mm, Dicke 23 mm
ISBN:	9780226828381 9780226828374