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This Innovative Study Adopts A Completely New Perspective On Both The Industrial Revolution And Nineteenth-century British Culture. It Investigates Why Inventors Rose To Heroic Stature And Popular Acclaim In Victorian Britain, Attested By Numerous Monuments, Biographies, And Honors, And Contends There Was No Decline In The Industrial Nation's Self-esteem Before 1914. In A Period Notorious For Hero-worship, The Veneration Of Inventors Might Seem Unremarkable, Were It Not For Their Previous Disparagement And The Relative Neglect Suffered By Their Twentieth-century Successors. Christine Macleod Argues That Inventors Became Figureheads Of Various Nineteenth-century Factions, From Economic And Political Liberals To Impoverished Scientists, And Radical Artisans, Who Deployed Their Heroic Reputation, Not Least To Challenge The Aristocracy's Hold On Power And The Militaristic National Identity That Bolstered It. Although This Was A Challenge That Ultimately Failed, Its Legacy For Present-day Ideas About Invention, Inventors, And The History Of The Industrial Revolution Remains Highly Influential.--book Jacket. Introduction : Inventors And Other Heroes -- The New Prometheus --- The Inventor

Author

MacLeod, Christine, 1952-

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521873703

Subjects

Technology, History, Economics