Work of the Sun

TED UNDERWOOD is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• Introduction Romanticism and the Science of Light Energy and the Autonomy of Middle-Class Work Apollo, God of Middle-Class Enterprise Cowper's Spontaneous Task A Homeless Voice of Waters: Industrial and Imaginative Power in Wordsworth Sunlight and the Reification of Culture Productivism and the Reception of 'The Conservation of Force'

'Underwood unearths important manuscript sources as well as a wide range of little-known works in physics, chemistry, engineering, and political economics, and demonstrates considerable comparative prowess in using them effectively to contextualize key shifts in literary and economic sensibility during the centuries in question.' - Bruce Clarke, European Romantic Review