Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies) PDF
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MICHAEL FARADAY’S MENTAL EXERCISES AN ARTISAN ESSAYCIRCLE IN REGENCY LONDON LIVERPOOL ENGLISH TEXTS AND STUDIES, MICHAEL FARADAY’S MENTAL EXERCISES AN ARTISAN ESSAYCIRCLE IN REGENCY LONDON EDITED BY ALICE JENKINS First published by Liverpool University Press Cambridge Street Liverpool L ZU Copyright © Alice Jenkins The right of Alice Jenkins to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, . All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data A British Library CIP record is available ISBN ---- cased Typeset in Garamond by BBR Solutions Ltd, Chesterfield Printed and bound by Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn For Nicky Contents Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction Faraday and style Organizing the essay-circle Writing the Mental Exercises Reading in the Mental Exercises Note on editorial policy Part One: The ‘Mental Exercises’ List of Members and Scribes’ Rota Members’ Agreement On Study On Honour On Argument On Imagination and Judgement Hope On General Character On the Pleasures and Uses of the Imagination On Politeness Agis The Charms of Sleep Friendship & Charity viii michael faraday’s mental exercises An Ode to the PASS Garreteer’s Epistle A Mathematical Love Letter On seeing a Rose in the Possession of a Lady at the SMHPABNASL On Courage Irritus to the Manager Marriage is Honourable in All Friendship On Mind and the Duty of Improving It A word for Page On the Early Introduction of Females to Society Memoranda On prematurely Forming Opinion of Characters On the Death of the Princess Charlotte Affectation On Conscious Approbation The Origin of a Critic—A Fable Reflections on Death On Avarice On Tradesmen On Laws On the Changes of the mind On Marriage On Calumny Letter to the Secretary Enigma On Marriage Effeminacy & Luxury A Brother’s Letter to Mr. Deeble Junius & Tullia A Ramble to Melincourt On Triflers th Psalm Infancy At a Village on the Dunchurch Road contents ix Part Two: Contexts Faraday and Self-Education Faraday, from the Correspondence (–) Faraday, from Observations on the Means of Obtaining Knowledge () Faraday, from ‘Observations on the Inertia of the Mind’ () Faraday’s indexes to eighteenth-century periodicals Faraday, from ‘Observations on Mental Education’ () The Improvement of the Mind Isaac Watts, from The Improvement of the Mind () Samuel Johnson, from The Rambler () Thomas Williams, from The Moral Tendencies of Knowledge () Isaac Taylor, from Self-Cultivation Recommended: Or, Hints to a Youth Leaving School () From The Black Dwarf () Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein () Henry Brougham, from Practical Observations upon the Education of the People () The Pleasures of the Imagination Joseph Addison, from The Spectator () Mark Akenside, from The Pleasures of the Imagination () Index
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