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Fairclough, Mary.

Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840'electrick Communication Every Where' /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840by Mary Fairclough.
Reminder of title:	'electrick Communication Every Where' /
Author:	Fairclough, Mary.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017.
Description:	ix, 264 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Cultural History.
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59315-3
ISBN:	9781137593153$q(electronic bk.)

Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840'electrick Communication Every Where' /
Fairclough, Mary.

Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840'electrick Communication Every Where' /[electronic resource] :by Mary Fairclough. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - ix, 264 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

Introduction. Electricity, spectacle and figuration -- Chapter 1. Experiment, aether and the soul of the world -- Chapter 2. Electricital medicine, feeling and eroticism -- Chapter 3. Animal electricity, vitality, and revolution -- Chapter 4. Electrochemistry, matter and life -- Epilogue. Michael Faraday and a new electrical era -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

ISBN: 9781137593153$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-59315-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

742092
Cultural History.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.

LC Class. No.: DA485 / .F35 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 941.07

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