Networks of Improvement

Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvJon Mee,Professor Jon Mee

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-10
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226828381

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IntroductionPart One: Networks and Institutions1 Power, Knowledge, and Literature2 The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781–18233 Improvement Redux: Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, 1812–32Part Two: Bodies and Machines4 Three Physicians around Manchester5 Hannah Greg’s Domestic Mission6 An Inventive Age7 Lives, Damned Lives, and StatisticsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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