An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792-1853

ISBN-13: 9780807163801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str.

Christopher Ferguson

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In "An Artisan Intellectual," Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives shifted during Britain s long march to modernity. Carter began his working life at age thirteen as an apprentice and continued to work as a tailor throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. As the Industrial Revolution brought innovations to every aspect of British life, Carter took advantage of opportunities to push against the boundaries of his working-class background. He supplemented his income through his writing, publishing often unsigned books, articles, and poems on subjects as diverse as religion, death, nature, aesthetics, and theories of civilization."