Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840

The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate the mysteries of electricity, and traces the figurative uses of electrical language in the works of writers including Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall, Mary Shelley and Richard Carlile.

Cartea analizeaza incercarile atat de elita, cat si de practicienii populari ai electricitatii de a elucida misterele electricitatii si urmareste utilizarile figurative ale limbajului electric in lucrarile scriitorilor, printre care Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall, Mary Shelley si Richard Carlile .