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Nineteenth-Century Energies - Literature, Technology, Culture (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-Century Energies - Literature, Technology, Culture (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of 'energy', a
concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies
today. It examines the cultural perceptions and uses of energy in
the nineteenth century - both in terms of pure and applied science,
and as an idea with widespread diffusion in the popular imagination
- in contributions by scholars drawing on a variety of fields, such
as literature, philosophy, history, French studies, Latin American
studies, cinema studies, and art history. These contributions
explore the rise of insomnia as a recognized ailment, the role of
guns and gun culture in the perception of human agency, the first
uses of the barometer to predict massive cyclonic weather systems,
and the hallucinatory, almost occult effects of radiant energy in
early film. Exemplifying innovative research in twenty-first
century academia, this volume also speaks to the wider cultural
concerns of today's global citizen about the preservation and
renewal of natural resources around the world; the emergence of
devices and technologies that have both improved and impaired human
life; the aggrandizement of nation-states around large
technological systems; and the centrality of the image in our
perception and absorption of contemporary culture. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Nineteenth-Century
Contexts.
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