Aesthetic materialism [electronic resource] : electricity and American romanticism / Paul Gilmore.
By: Gilmore, Paul.
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BookPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009Description: viii, 242 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Authors, American -- 19th century -- Aesthetics | Electricity in literature | Telegraph in literature | Romanticism -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/003 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view "Parts of Chapter 3 were originally published in ATQ, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2002. Reprinted by permission of The University of Rhode Island."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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