"All that the most romantic imagination could have previously conceived": Writing an Industrial Revolution, 1795 to 1835

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0025

J. Mee

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Abstract:This essay discusses the writing of the idea of the Industrial Revolution in three texts often cited by economic historians: John Aikin's Description of Manchester (1795); John Kennedy's "Observations on the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Trade" (1815); and Edward Baines junior's History of the Cotton Manufacture (1835). It traces an uneven development away from Aikin's sense of a complex system toward a techno-determinist narrative presented as "almost romantic" (Baines) in its idea of freedom released by limitless growth, an idea that may be uncomfortably closer to Romantic poetics than often acknowledged.

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“所有最浪漫的想象以前都可以设想”:写工业革命，1795至1835年

摘要：本文讨论了经济历史学家经常引用的三篇文本中关于工业革命思想的写作：约翰·艾金的《曼彻斯特描述》（1795）；约翰·肯尼迪的《棉花贸易的兴起和发展观察》（1815）；以及爱德华·贝恩斯的《棉花制造史》（1835）。它追溯了从艾金的复杂系统感到技术决定论叙事的不均衡发展，这种叙事在无限增长释放的自由思想中表现为“近乎浪漫”（贝恩斯），这种思想可能比通常承认的更接近浪漫主义诗学，令人不安。

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期刊介绍： Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.