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, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Electricity in literature
Romanticism
Telegraph in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the word "aesthetic"
  • Idealist aesthetics and the republican telegraph
  • Aesthetic electricity
  • Frederick Douglass's electric words : aesthetic politics and the limits of identification
  • Mad filaments : Walt Whitman's aesthetic body telegraphic
  • Conclusion : aesthetic electricity caged.

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