Alice Jenkins (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311406
- eISBN:
- 9781846313554
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313554
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday's essay-circle met ...
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In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday's essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticize one another's writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes, and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book publishes the essays and poems produced by Faraday's circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle's writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources, and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group.Less
In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday's essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticize one another's writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes, and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book publishes the essays and poems produced by Faraday's circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle's writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources, and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group.
