Aesthetic materialism : electricity and American romanticism /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 material practice mediating among socio-economic structures, human physiology and spirituality, and language itself. |
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Notas: | "Parts of Chapter 3 were originally published in ATQ, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2002. Reprinted by permission of The University of Rhode Island."--Title page verso |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780804770972 0804770972 080476123X 9780804761239 |