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Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises

By Alice Jenkins

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Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises

By Alice Jenkins

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2008-08-15
Publication Date:
2008-06-01
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1846311403
ISBN13:
9781846311406
Weight:
544 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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