Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840 : 'electrick communication every where' / Mary Fairclough.
2017
DA485
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Title
Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840 : 'electrick communication every where' / Mary Fairclough.
ISBN
9781137593153 (electronic book)
1137593156 (electronic book)
9781137593146
1137593156 (electronic book)
9781137593146
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-59315-3 doi
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DA485
Dewey Decimal Classification
941.07
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 06, 2017).
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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Table of Contents
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
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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
.