Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution 9780226828398
A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth c
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Table of contents :
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 Greg’s Domestic Mission
6. An Inventive Age
7. Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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 Greg’s Domestic Mission
6. An Inventive Age
7. Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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- Jon Mee
