Aesthetic Materialism : Electricity and American Romanticism.

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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism provides a fresh understanding of American romanticism by examining the use of electrical imagery, science, and technology by writers such as Emerson, Fuller, Whitman, and Melville to re-describe literary aesthetics as a transcendent and ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilmore, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Authors, American > 19th century > Aesthetics.
Electricity in literature.
Telegraph in literature.
Romanticism > United States.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains américains > 19e siècle > Esthétique.
Électricité dans la littérature.
Romantisme > États-Unis.
American literature
Electricity in literature
Romanticism
Telegraph in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Word "Aesthetic"; CHAPTER ONE
  • Idealist Aesthetics and the Republican Telegraph; Electric Aether and Associationism; Coleridge's Electricity and Romantic Ideology; Republican Electricity and Idealist Aesthetics; Morse's Republicanism and Idealist Associationism; Morse's Electricity, Spiritual and Material; The Universal Telegraph and the Telegraphic World Body; The Northern Brain of Humanity, or A Common Language of the World; The Useful and the Beautiful; CHAPTER TWO
  • Aesthetic Electricity.

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