The Resource The Romantic crowd : sympathy, controversy and print culture, Mary Fairclough
The Romantic crowd : sympathy, controversy and print culture, Mary Fairclough
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 294 pages
- Contents
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- 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, 1800-1850: 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
- Isbn
- 9781107031692
- Label
- The Romantic crowd : sympathy, controversy and print culture
- Title
- The Romantic crowd
- Title remainder
- sympathy, controversy and print culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Fairclough
- Subject
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- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British
- Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Social values -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Social values -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Sympathy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Sympathy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Collective behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fairclough, Mary
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Sympathy
- Sympathy
- Romanticism
- Romanticism
- Social values
- Social values
- Press and politics
- Collective behavior
- France
- Label
- The Romantic crowd : sympathy, controversy and print culture, Mary Fairclough
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-287) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 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, 1800-1850: 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
- Control code
- FIEb17753314
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107031692
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)811239031
- Label
- The Romantic crowd : sympathy, controversy and print culture, Mary Fairclough
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-287) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 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, 1800-1850: 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
- Control code
- FIEb17753314
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107031692
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)811239031
Subject
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British
- Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Social values -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Social values -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Sympathy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Sympathy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Collective behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
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