Networks of ImprovementA new literary cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of dark satanic mills, in many ways so comforting to literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides a fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences. In Networks of Improvement, Mee reads a wide range of textseconomic, medical, and more