| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
"Parts of Chapter 3 were originally published in ATQ, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2002. Reprinted by permission of The University of Rhode Island."--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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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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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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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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080476123X |
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9780804761239 |
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