03852nam 22009255 450 991097010990332120240307122126.09786611365431978128136543912813654329781403981905140398190610.1057/9781403981905(CKB)1000000000342849(EBL)308328(OCoLC)314821591(SSID)ssj0000273896(PQKBManifestationID)11206552(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273896(PQKBWorkID)10323233(PQKB)10210429(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8190-5(MiAaPQ)EBC308328(Au-PeEL)EBL308328(CaPaEBR)ebr10135549(CaONFJC)MIL136543(OCoLC)437187473(Perlego)3496410(EXLCZ)99100000000034284920151127d2005 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Work of the Sun Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760-1860 /by T. Underwood1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349529285 1349529281 9781403965998 1403965994 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Light as Fluid Agency; 2 Energy and the Autonomy of Middle-Class Work; 3 Apollo, God of Enterprise; 4 Cowper's Spontaneous Task; 5 Wordsworth and the Homelessness of Engines; 6 Sunlight and the Reification of Culture; 7 Energy Becomes Labor: The Role of Engineering Theory; 8 Productivism and the Popularization of the First Law of Thermodynamics; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAt the end of the Eighteenth century, British writers began to celebrate work in a strangely indirect way. Instead of describing diligence as an attribute of character, poets and novelists increasingly identified work with impersonal 'energies' akin to natural force. Chemists traced mental and muscular work back to its source in sunlight, giving rise to the claim (beloved by Nineteenth-century journalists) that 'all the labour done under the sun is really done by it'. The Work of The Sun traces the emergence of this model of work, exploring its sources in middle-class consciousness and its implications for British literature and science.SciencePhilosophyPhysicsStudy and teachingPoetryFictionEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600European literaturePhilosophy of ScienceEducation in PhysicsPoetry and PoeticsFiction LiteratureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureEuropean LiteratureSciencePhilosophy.PhysicsStudy and teaching.Poetry.Fiction.European literatureEuropean literature.Philosophy of Science.Education in Physics.Poetry and Poetics.Fiction Literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.European Literature.820.9/36Underwood Ted1791278MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970109903321The Work of the Sun4328412UNINA