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Michael Faraday's mental exercises : an artisan essay-circle in Regency London / edited by Alice Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 51.
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867--Friends and associates.
- Faraday, Michael.
- Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867--Sources.
- Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867.
- Self-help groups--England--London.
- Self-help groups.
- Self-help techniques.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- English language--Style--Study and teaching.
- Report writing--Study and teaching.
- Report writing.
- English language--Style.
- Friends and associates.
- England--London.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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. The 'Mental Exercises' they produced are a fascinating record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London.
- This is the first time that the essays and poems produced by Faraday's circle have been published. 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. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist
- Contents:
- Faraday and style 1
- Organizing the essay-circle 7
- Writing the Mental Exercises 18
- Reading in the Mental Exercises 29
- Note on editorial policy 37
- Part 1 The 'Mental Exercises'
- List of Members and Scribes' Rota 39
- Members' Agreement 40
- On Study 41
- On Honour 46
- On Argument 49
- On Imagination and Judgement 51
- Hope 56
- On General Character 59
- On the Pleasures and Uses of the Imagination 62
- On Politeness 68
- Agis 74
- The Charms of Sleep 75
- Friendship & Charity 77
- An Ode to the PASS 82
- Garreteer's Epistle 88
- A Mathematical Love Letter 89
- On seeing a Rose in the Possession of a Lady at the SMHPABNASL 92
- On Courage 93
- Irritus to the Manager 98
- Marriage is Honourable in All 99
- Friendship 106
- On Mind and the Duty of Improving It 107
- A word for Page 73 118
- On the Early Introduction of Females to Society 118
- Memoranda 120
- On prematurely Forming Opinion of Characters 121
- On the Death of the Princess Charlotte 124
- Affectation 124
- On Conscious Approbation 128
- The Origin of a Critic-A Fable 129
- Reflections on Death 132
- On Avarice 135
- On Tradesmen 136
- On Laws 143
- On the Changes of the mind 144
- On Marriage 147
- On Calumny 148
- Letter to the Secretary 149
- Enigma 151
- On Marriage 152
- Effeminacy & Luxury 154
- A Brother's Letter to Mr. Deeble 156
- Junius & Tullia 156
- A Ramble to Melincourt 160
- On Triflers 162
- 139th Psalm 166
- Infancy 168
- At a Village on the Dunchurch Road 170
- Part 2 Contexts
- Faraday and Self-Education
- from the Correspondence (1812-16) / Faraday 174
- from Observations on the Means of Obtaining Knowledge (1817) / Faraday 179
- from 'Observations on the Inertia of the Mind' (1818) / Faraday 187
- Faraday's indexes to eighteenth-century periodicals 198
- from 'Observations on Mental Education' (1854) / Faraday 200
- The Improvement of the Mind
- from The Improvement of the Mind (1741) / Isaac Watts 213
- from The Rambler (1751) / Samuel Johnson 217
- from The Moral Tendencies of Knowledge (1815) / Thomas Williams 220
- from Self-Cultivation Recommended: Or, Hints to a Youth Leaving School (1817) / Isaac Taylor 222
- From The Black Dwarf (1819) 224
- from Frankenstein (1818) / Mary Shelley 226
- from Practical Observations upon the Education of the People (1825) / Henry Brougham 233
- The Pleasures of the Imagination
- from The Spectator (1712) / Joseph Addison 239
- from The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744) / Mark Akenside 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781846311406
- 1846311403
- OCLC:
- 191856082
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