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January 24, 2004
Fay Goodwin
The image reminds me of Friedrich Engels description of the working class urbanscape from Ducie Bridge in his Condition of the Working Class in England and the romantic reaction to the urban ugliness of the emerging industrial capitalism in nineteenth century England.
English romanticism is a recoil from the early Industrial Revolution (ie. Blake's dark Satanic mills) as well as to the recoil from the empiricism of Bacon, Newton, Locke and the utilitarianism of Bentham.
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