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In five pages this paper examines how the story of England’s Industrial Revolution is retold in this novel by Neal Stephenson. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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instability for England. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the once indomitable British Empire was showing some cracks. Its social structure was becoming fragmented as the rich
grew richer and the impoverished masses increased dramatically. It was only when Queen Victoria ascended to the throne in 1837 that England began repairing its damaged society by adhering
to a strict class hierarchy characterized by impeccable standards of morality and etiquette. Once English society was back on track, transfusing its anemic economy became the central focus.
The gradual replacement of manual labor with technology that became known as the Industrial Revolution not only transformed England, but the entire global landscape. The world of the twenty-first
century continues to reel from its effects as industrialization has brought both socioeconomic prosperity and unspeakable horror. The twenty-first century is also the period within which Neal Stephensons novel,
The Diamond Age, is set. It is essentially a futuristic retelling or reimagining of Englands Industrial Revolution and considers the central sociopolitical conflict it generated, that of "order versus
personal freedom and progress" (Briggs 124). Like the technology explosion that was ignited during the Industrial Revolution as the result of Sir
Richard Arkwrights creative combination of power and machinery, the nanotechnology surge described in The Diamond Age that included chevalines, micromachines, and compilers was re-ignited by the innovativeness of an Atlantis/Shanghai
"high-level engineer" John Percival Hackworth (Stephenson 50). Hackworth, a Neo-Victorian, who was commissioned by Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle McGraw to develop an interactive book entitled the Young Ladys Illustrated
Primer as a gift for his granddaughter. Recognizing the importance of such a text, Hackworth also made a copy for his daughter Fiona. The Primer instructs readers how
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