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Two The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781–1823
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Published:October 2023
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Drawing on extensive archival and published sources, this chapter explains the development of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1781) and its successor in Newcastle (1793). First explaining the logic of emulation that they routinely evoked, it also discusses the limiting effects of the reaction against the French Revolution in 1790s. This challenge brought a contraction in the public culture of improvement that bore down on the way the production and dissemination of ideas had previously been understood to best function. The archives of the societies show that print interacted in this process with an array of other forms of knowledge production and dissemination, including books and libraries, conversation, museum exhibitions, and scientific lectures. Relations between these media exposed not only political tensions but also deep-seated differences about what constituted knowledge. This chapter follows these conflicts after the manner of Bruno Latour to disclose the processes of group formation and dissolution, including, for instance, a bitter controversy at Newcastle between the claims of buying apparatus for scientific lectures as against books for the library. These differences were not simply about the content of knowledge; it was also about how and for whom it was produced and disseminated, and accessibility.
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