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Power lines : electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 / Jennifer L. Lieberman.
Lippincott Library HD9685.U5 L49 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lieberman, Jennifer L., author.
- Series:
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electrification--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Electrification.
- Electric power--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Electric power.
- Technology in literature--History.
- Technology in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Electrification--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction: power lines
- Mark Twain and the technological fallacy
- Shock and sensibility: the rhetorics of electric execution
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's human storage battery and other fantasies of interconnection
- The call of the wires: Jack London and the interpretive flexibility of electrical power
- Ralph Ellison, Lewis Mumford, and the hope of a technological humanism
- Conclusion: the power of lines.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262036375
- 0262036371
- OCLC:
- 975270193
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