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Science and technology in the age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James thinking and writing electricity /
This innovative book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture. Ranging across a vast array of materials, Sam Halliday shows how electricity functioned as both a means of representing other things--from love and solidarity to embodi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | American literature readings in the 21st century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This innovative book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture. Ranging across a vast array of materials, Sam Halliday shows how electricity functioned as both a means of representing other things--from love and solidarity to embodiment and temporality--and as an object of representation in its own right. As well as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and James, the book considers other major American writers such as Whitman, Margaret Fuller and Henry Adams; English writers such as Hardy and Kipling; and a galaxy of scientists and social commentators, including mesmerists, physicians, conspiracy theorists, psychologists and theologians. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0230605095 9780230605091 9781349537327 1349537322 |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |