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The Romantic crowd : sympathy, controversy and print culture /
"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 s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
97. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139382724 1139382721 9781139626026 1139626027 9781139616720 1139616722 9781139613002 1139613006 1139611143 9781139611145 1139622307 9781139622301 1139609327 9781139609326 9781107566668 1107566665 |