Networks of Improvement
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82838-1 (ISBN)
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.
Jon Mee is professor in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of five books, including Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty and Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community, 1762 to 1830.
Introduction
Part One: Networks and Institutions
1 Power, Knowledge, and Literature
2 The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781–1823
3 Improvement Redux: Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, 1812–32
Part Two: Bodies and Machines
4 Three Physicians around Manchester
5 Hannah Greg’s Domestic Mission
6 An Inventive Age
7 Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.09.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-82838-7 / 0226828387 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-82838-1 / 9780226828381 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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