Literature Electricity And Politics 1740 1840

Author : Mary Fairclough
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137593153

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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840 by Mary Fairclough Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Grace Albanese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009314244

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Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature by Mary Grace Albanese Pdf

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482844

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion by Jeffrey W. Barbeau Pdf

The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.

Author : Omar F. Miranda,Kate Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009206525

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Percy Shelley for Our Times by Omar F. Miranda,Kate Singer Pdf

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection explores Shelley's remarkable collaboration with audiences across spaces and times. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Linda Van Netten Blimke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484072

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Political Affairs of the Heart by Linda Van Netten Blimke Pdf

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women’s engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain’s national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (1768)—which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue—facilitated women’s gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country’s sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation’s perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350090934

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age by Anonim Pdf

During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and “affections” continued as the dominant discourse structuring thinking about feeling and its wider religious, political, social, economic, and moral imperatives. The emotional cultures described in these essays enable some comparative discussion about the history of emotions, and particularly the causes and consequences of emotional change in the larger cultural contexts of the Baroque and Enlightenment. Emotions research has enabled a rethinking of dominant narratives of the period-of histories of revolution, state-building, the rise of the public sphere, religious and scientific transformation, and more. As a new and dynamic field, the essays here are just the beginning of a much bigger history of emotions.

Author : Pamela F. Phillips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000862294

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Enlightened Nightscapes by Pamela F. Phillips Pdf

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts. Situated on the eve of the introduction of artificial lighting, the long eighteenth century has much to say about night’s darkness and brilliance. The eighteenth century has been bound up epistemologically with images of light, reason, and order. Night and day, light and darkness, reason and mystery, however, are not necessarily at odds in the eighteenth century. In their analysis of narratives, poetry, urban spaces, music, the visual arts, and geological phenomena, the essays provide various frameworks to examine the representation, treatment, and meaning of the enlightened night. The transnational and multidisciplinary nature of the volume presents a survey of the research currently being done in the field of the long eighteenth-century night. This collection contributes to an ongoing exercise that questions the accepted definitions of the Enlightenment, and by bringing Eighteenth-Century Studies into dialogue with Night Studies, it enriches the critical conversation between these lines of research.

Author : Matthew C. Hunter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226390253

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Painting with Fire by Matthew C. Hunter Pdf

Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.

Author : Alfred J. Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electricity
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010465979

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Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, the Electric Telegraph, &c by Alfred J. Frost Pdf

Author : Francis Ronalds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108052542

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Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, the Electric Telegraph, Etc by Francis Ronalds Pdf

First published in 1880, this is a catalogue of over 13,000 titles kept by the Society of Telegraph Engineers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131533700

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465094851

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Wild Nights by Benjamin Reiss Pdf

Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history--one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling consequences. Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most of human history, practically no one slept this way. Tracing sleep's transformation since the dawn of the industrial age, Reiss weaves together insights from literature, social and medical history, and cutting-edge science to show how and why we have tried and failed to tame sleep. In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, cave-dwelling sleep researchers, slaves who led nighttime uprisings, rebellious workers, spectacularly frazzled parents, and utopian dreamers. We are hardly the first people, Reiss makes clear, to chafe against our modern rules for sleeping. A stirring testament to sleep's diversity, Wild Nights offers a profound reminder that in the vulnerability of slumber we can find our shared humanity. By peeling back the covers of history, Reiss recaptures sleep's mystery and grandeur and offers hope to weary readers: as sleep was transformed once before, so too can it change today.

Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : New York : R.R. Bowker
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0835214435

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Books in Series, 1876-1949 by R.R. Bowker Company Pdf

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 0918024854

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Literature and Science by Aldous Huxley Pdf