Mary Fairclough: 2 books
The Romantic Crowd
Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic writers explored sympathy as a disruptive social...
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
‘Electrick Communication Every Where’
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
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...