Mary Fairclough

Romantic Crowd (eBook, ePUB)

Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic writers explored sympathy as a disruptive social phenomenon, which functioned to spread disorder between individuals and even across nations like a 'contagion'. It thus accounted for the instinctive behaviour of people swept up in a crowd. During this era sympathy assumed a controversial political significance, as it came to be associated with both riotous political protest and the diffusion of information through the press. Mary Fairclough reads Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, John Thelwall, William Hazlitt and Thomas De Quincey alongside contemporary political, medical and philosophical discourse. Many of their central questions about crowd behaviour still remain to be answered by the modern discourse of collective psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139611145
• Artikelnr.: 52850838

Autorenporträt

Mary Fairclough is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: collective sympathy; Part I. Sympathetic Communication,
1750-1800: From Moral Philosophy to Revolutionary Crowds: 1. Sympathy and
the crowd: eighteenth-century contexts; 2. Sympathetic communication and
the French Revolution; Part II. Romantic Afterlives, 1800-50: Sympathetic
Communication, Mass Protest and Print Culture: 3. Sympathy and the press:
mass protest and print culture in Regency England; 4. 'The contagious
sympathy of popular and patriotic emotions': sympathy and loyalism after
Waterloo; Afterword: sympathy and the Romantic crowd; Select bibliography;
Index.