Publication News: Networks of Improvement

Published by University of Chicago Press, Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution is the first ever study of the transpennine enlightenment and its role in the first Industrial Revolution.

“Richly archival and powerful in its conceptions, Mee’s Networks of Improvement boldly goes where few literary historians have been before, into the heartlands of industrializing Britain for a magisterially orchestrated and methodologically groundbreaking study. Mee has given us a picture of British intellectual and social relationships that will stand unmatched for a long time to come.” - Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University.