| Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Halliday, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403976724 ISBN-13: 9781403976727 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Science | History - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 509.730 |
| LCCN: 2007061160 |
| Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.45" W x 7.79" (0.90 lbs) 251 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many fascinating hitherto under-studied writers. |