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Aesthetic materialism : electricity and American romanticism / Paul Gilmore.
LIBRA PS217.A35 G55 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilmore, Paul, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--19th century--Aesthetics.
- Authors, American.
- Electricity in literature.
- Telegraph in literature.
- Romanticism--United States.
- Romanticism.
- Aesthetics.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804761239
- 080476123X
- OCLC:
- 236117287
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