"Productivism and the Vogue for ""Energy"" in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain"
Underwood, Ted
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Title
"Productivism and the Vogue for ""Energy"" in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain"
Author(s)
Underwood, Ted
Issue Date
1995
Keyword(s)
energy, productivism, romanticism, work, social class, culturomics, word frequencies
Abstract
"In the late eighteenth century, vocabulary for work shifted away from terms emphasizing conscious effort (e.g. ""industrious"" and ""diligent"") and toward the term ""energy."" Although at this point ""energy"" lacked its modern thermodynamic associations, it already expressed a conception of work as natural and spontaneous activity that was especially dear to the British middle classes."
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