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Auteur(s) : Fairclough, Mary (1978-....)
Titre(s) : The romantic crowd [Texte imprimé] : sympathy, controversy and print culture / Mary Fairclough
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : ix, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 97
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in romanticism
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-287) and index
"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"--
Sujet(s) : Romantisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Romantisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Valeurs sociales -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Valeurs sociales -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Presse et politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
France -- 1789-1799 (Révolution) -- Opinion publique britannique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107031692. - ISBN 1107031699 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435354987
Notice n° :
FRBNF43535498
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