Romantic electricity
Fields and currents in recent research
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12879808 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mary Fairclough (0000-0003-2096-0511, University of York, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Volumen | 15 |
| Número | 2 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12434 |
| OpenAlex | W2775060596 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 26 |
Romantic writings about electricity have proved a fruitful topic for recent scholars of the period, and the study of electrical discourse is a fast‐growing interdisciplinary field. This essay offers a survey of the best work on Romantic electricity, focusing on 2 key areas: the ways in which electricity appears as an image of revolutionary activity, and the use of electric imagery in Romantic poetry as a figure for creativity and vitality. In assessing such recent work, this essay argues for the importance of reading Romantic electrical texts within the context of the material experimental cultures of period. Such historical attention reveals that electrical language is amazingly ubiquitous in the Romantic period, and is used in a variety of ways in literary and political texts. Awareness of this rich body of electrical texts offers scholars opportunities to move beyond assigning electricity a particular political valence, and to investigate the operation of electrical language in the work of a wide range of authors
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Creativity · Electrical engineering · Electricity · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Vitality · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · History · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Social Psychology
Romanticism and Caricature
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
Madam BritanniaWomen, Church, and Nation 1712-1812
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge
The Electric Machine in the American Garden
The New Organon
Shocks and Sparks
The Romantic Crowd
Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
The Image of Science as a Threat
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |