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John Mee


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Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies & Machines in the Industrial Revolution

John Mee (Avery Distinguished Fellow, 2016-17)

Working against the stubbornly persistent image of “dark satanic mills,” in many ways so characteristic of literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides a fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences.