Titlebook: Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840; ‘Electrick Communica Mary Fairclough Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Book 2017was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the nature of electricity dovetailed with discussions of the relation between body and soul, the nature of sexual attraction, the properties of revolutionary co

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Experiment, Aether and the Soul of the World,n, Ebenezer Kinnersley, Joseph Priestley and Adam Walker all grapple with the question of whether electricity is a material or spiritual phenomenon, and the associated implications for their professions of faith.

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Animal Electricity, Vitality, and Revolution, condemn revolutionary agitation. Radicals like Erasmus Darwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and John Thelwall use electrical language to describe reformist or creative activity but they too are disturbed by electricity’s resistance to analysis.

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Electrical Medicine, Feeling and Eroticism,ary Robinson take up Graham’s model of electricity as a sensual healing force, but assign it new political significance after the French Revolution, claiming it as an image of revolutionary political health.

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