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Energy and economy in American literature / Alan Ackerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackerman, Alan L. (Alan Louis), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Power resources in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Industrialization in literature.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This study illuminates the formation of a vital, new idiom of "energy" and "economy" in America's industrial heartland in the nineteenth century. Ackerman's vivid account of mythmaking and material production will interest anyone who cares about intellectual, cultural, and economic history, fossil fuels and the rise of ecological thought"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Burning ideas
- Emerson in Pittsburgh
- Apocalyptic rumblings : domestic economy and environmentalism
- Henry Adams on the track of energy
- Edith Wharton's aesthetic resources
- Black labor, coal, and the soul's economy
- Afterword.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-84185-8
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