Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1846311403 ISBN 13 : 9781846311406

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday's essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another's writings. The 'Mental Exercises' they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday's circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle's writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist.

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This is an impressive piece of scholarship and will make an important contribution to our understanding of the culture of the early 19th Century Professor Andy Smith, University of Glamorgan 'Mental Exercises' will add considerably to the published literature on Michael Faraday but the relevance of the text goes well beyond Faraday studies since it is an important document for historians interested in the lives and education of artisans of the period. --Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds

Faraday's Mental Exercises is an incredibly interesting text and Alice Jenkins' introduction is excellent. --Professor Frank A J L James, Royal Institution, President of the British Society for the History of Science

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846311403
• ISBN 13: 9781846311406
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Jenkins Alice