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

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; [97] Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 97. Contents 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-287) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Sympathy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Sympathy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Social values -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Social values -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Collective behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Press and politics Public opinion, British Romanticism Social values Sympathy Literatur Englisch Sympathie Motiv Druckmedien SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British Subject France Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012036727 ISBN 9781139382724 1139382721 9781139626026 1139626027 9781139616720 1139616722 9781139613002 1139613006 1139611143 9781139611145 1139622307 9781139622301 1139609327 9781139609326 9781107566668 1107566665

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