Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution by Mee, Jon
Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution by Mee, Jon

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth...
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Author: Jon Mee
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Language: English
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Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution by Mee, Jon

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

$143.46
Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution by Mee, Jon

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

$143.46
Author: Jon Mee
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Jon Mee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780226828381


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