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  1. Networks of improvement
    literature, bodies, and machines in the industrial revolution
    Author: Mee, Jon
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London

    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... more

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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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226828381; 9780226828374
    RVK Categories: HL 1031
    Subjects: Industrielle Revolution; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 303 Seiten, Illustrationen, Breite 152 mm, Hoehe 229 mm, Dicke 23 mm
  2. Networks of improvement
    literature, bodies, and machines in the Industrial Revolution
    Author: Mee, Jon
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    "In this book, Jon Mee proposes a new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Against the stubbornly persistent image of "dark satanic mills," in many ways so... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    B 433016
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    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
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    HL 1031 M494
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    "In this book, Jon Mee proposes a new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Against the stubbornly persistent image of "dark satanic mills," in many ways so comforting to literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences. Reading a wide range of texts-economic, medical, and more conventionally "literary" ones-with a distinctive 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 unexpectedly to coercive forms of machine productivity, a pattern that might be seen repeating in the digital technologies in our own time. Instead of treating the Industrial Revolution as Romanticism's "other," Mee shows how writing, practices, and institutions emanating from the industrial towns developed a new kind of knowledge economy, one where "literary" debates played a key role, especially through local literary and philosophical societies who were important transmission hubs for the circulation of knowledge. Mee provides a new perspective on the development of social relations across the period, challenging the idea that the Industrial Revolution as the result of some kind of prior, ideological intention. The book will interest literary scholars concerned with the relation of Romanticism to Britain's social and economic upheavals; social and economic historians studying the underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution; and cultural historians tracing the relation between social networks and political philosophy."

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226828381; 0226828387; 9780226828374; 0226828379
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    Subjects: Industrialisierung; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Großbritannien; Industrial revolution; Industrial revolution in literature
    Scope: 303 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Networks and Institutions -- Power, Knowledge, and Literature -- The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781- -- Improvement Redux: Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, 1812- -- Bodies and Machines -- Three Physicians around Manchester -- Hannah Greg's Domestic Mission -- An Inventive Age -- Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics.