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Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, early photography, and mass-scale printing, the author looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848.

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"A fascinating book and a must for anyone seeking to get to grips with the complex, knotty roots of modernity." (Metascience) "Illuminating a spectrum of heterodox approaches grouped under the umbrella term 'mechanical romanticism,' Tresch makes an insistent and compelling case for why the current cultural impasse between science- and creative-types is far from inevitable. In this vision, sound science need not transpire without a lyrical core, while efficiency need not obviate moments of effusive, ecstatic connection." (Brooklyn Rail)"

The Romantic Machine Utopian Science and

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 December 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226214801
      978-0226214801
      ISBN-10 022621480X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, early photography, and mass-scale printing, the author looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848.

      Trade Review
      "A fascinating book and a must for anyone seeking to get to grips with the complex, knotty roots of modernity." (Metascience) "Illuminating a spectrum of heterodox approaches grouped under the umbrella term 'mechanical romanticism,' Tresch makes an insistent and compelling case for why the current cultural impasse between science- and creative-types is far from inevitable. In this vision, sound science need not transpire without a lyrical core, while efficiency need not obviate moments of effusive, ecstatic connection." (Brooklyn Rail)"

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