The Romantic crowd sympathy, controversy and print culture / Mary Fairclough.

"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...

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Main Author: Fairclough, Mary, 1978-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 97
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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.