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Author Gilmore, Paul, 1970-

Title Aesthetic materialism [electronic resource] : electricity and American romanticism / Paul Gilmore.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

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Description viii, 242 p.
Note "Parts of Chapter 3 were originally published in ATQ, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2002. Reprinted by permission of The University of Rhode Island."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Aesthetics.
Electricity in literature.
Telegraph in literature.
Romanticism -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804761239 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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