| Description |
1 online resource (404 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Word "Aesthetic"; CHAPTER ONE -- Idealist Aesthetics and the Republican Telegraph; Electric Aether and Associationism; Coleridge's Electricity and Romantic Ideology; Republican Electricity and Idealist Aesthetics; Morse's Republicanism and Idealist Associationism; Morse's Electricity, Spiritual and Material; The Universal Telegraph and the Telegraphic World Body; The Northern Brain of Humanity, or A Common Language of the World; The Useful and the Beautiful; CHAPTER TWO -- Aesthetic Electricity |
| Summary |
Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism provides a fresh understanding of American romanticism by examining the use of electrical imagery, science, and technology by writers such as Emerson, Fuller, Whitman, and Melville to re-describe literary aesthetics as a transcendent and material practice mediating among socio-economic structures, human physiology and spirituality, and language itself |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Aesthetics
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Electricity in literature.
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Telegraph in literature.
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Romanticism -- United States
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American literature
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Electricity in literature
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Romanticism
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Telegraph in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804770972 |
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0804770972 |
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