HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Daniel Defoe, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding
7 Apr 2015
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Thesis: the industrial revolution was not primarily the result of the actions of great men but of the social and economic conditions that ultimately inspired them to rise to certain challenges. Fiscal military state: ships, guns and cannons, sails, food and clothing, etc. etc. , employment and wages. Agricultural revolution: jethro tull- implements, charles townshend- crop rotation, robert bakewell- selective breeding, arthur young- dissemination of knowledge. Enclosure: the landlords, titles aristocracy, non-titles gentry. Upper middle class: from bankers to merchants to industrial producers, multiplier effect. Lawrence sterne: histories and travel books, newspapers, monthly magazines, booksellers publishers, libraries. Industrial revolution: excess wealth, labor, urban growth, london, manchester, birmingham, leeds, sheffield. Industries of england: wool & cotton: john kay"s flying shuttle 1712, supply/demand, there was a demand for cotton and wool cloths so the supply became more technologically advanced and more efficient. Nunu: novels- fanny, burney, daniel defoe, henry fielding,
