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

by Jon Mee

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226828387

ISBN13:9780226828381

Release Date:October 2023

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Business Business & Investing Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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