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

by Jon Mee

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226828379
• ISBN13: 9780226828374
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"