"This book is useful for those seeking to learn more about the personal, political, intellectual, and spiritual risks undertaken by those involved in the emergence of electrical discoveries and technologies. Literature, Electricity and Politics will interest scholars and students of the history and philosophy of science and intellectual history, as well as those eager to learn more about religious and political thought and the ideals of progress in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." (Jessica Hamel-Akré, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 31 (3), 2019)