Book ID: CBB001020720

Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism (2009)

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Gilmore, Paul (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: viii + 242 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Explores how writers such as Whitman, Melville, and Douglass used images of electricity and telegraphy in their works.


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Authors & Contributors
Parent, André
Cambiaghi, Marco
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
Zaun, Jörg
Wilson, Eric G.
Wilson, Andrew D.
Journals
Medicina Historica
Science and Education
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Nature
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
State University of New York at Binghamton
University of Minnesota Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Alabama Press
St. Martin's Press
Routledge
Concepts
Science and literature
Romanticism
Electricity; magnetism
Aesthetics
Physics
Poetry and poetics
People
Melville, Herman
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Whitman, Walt
Tesla, Nikola
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Darwin, Erasmus
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Greenwich (England)
Italy
France
Institutions
Freie Universität Berlin
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