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

Description: Networks of Improvement by Professor Jon Mee, Jon Mee 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 comforting to 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" ones—with a focus on their circulation through networks and institutions. Mee shows how a project of enlightened liberal reform articulated in Britains emerging manufacturing towns led unexpectedly to 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 Romanticisms "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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jon Mee is professor in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of five books, including Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty and Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community, 1762 to 1830. Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Networks and Institutions 1 Power, Knowledge, and Literature 2 The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781–1823 3 Improvement Redux: Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, 1812–32 Part Two: Bodies and Machines 4 Three Physicians around Manchester 5 Hannah Gregs Domestic Mission 6 An Inventive Age 7 Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Review "Richly archival and powerful in its conceptions, Mees Networks of Improvement boldly goes where few literary historians have been before, into the heartlands of industrializing Britain for a magisterially orchestrated and methodologically groundbreaking study. Mee has given us a picture of British intellectual and social relationships that will stand unmatched for a long time to come." * Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University *"Mee offers a sophisticated account of reading as a social practice central to the circulation of knowledge, both grand and granular, responsive to large questions with local particularities. Networks of Improvement is comprehensive, clearly written, and carefully organized." * Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University *"A capsule review cannot do justice to Networks of Improvement. . . . The book is immensely learned and theoretically sophisticated (Bruno Latour occupies a prominent place), and it is well grounded in both primary and secondary texts and supported by extensive original research in the archives. . . . Essential." * Choice *"Be prepared to be surprised by Networks of Improvement. The early industrial revolution is not a place that conjures up images of improvement, or liberalism, or advances in medical practice. . . . Jon Mees immensely learned book complicates and revises our images." * Northern History * Details ISBN0226828387 Author Jon Mee Pages 288 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Year 2023 Edition 1st ISBN-13 9780226828381 Format Paperback Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution Country of Publication United States Illustrations 10 halftones NZ Release Date 2023-10-06 UK Release Date 2023-10-06 ISBN-10 0226828387 DEWEY 338.0941 Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2023-10-10 US Release Date 2023-10-10 AU Release Date 2023-10-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:151291232;

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