Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James - Thinking and Writing Electricity (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

This innovative book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture. Ranging across a vast array of materials, Sam Halliday shows how electricity functioned as both a means of representing "other" things--from love and solidarity to embodiment and temporality--and as an object of representation in its own right. As well as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and James, the book considers other major American writers such as Whitman, Margaret Fuller and Henry Adams; English writers such as Hardy and Kipling; and a galaxy of scientists and social commentators, including mesmerists, physicians, conspiracy theorists, psychologists and theologians.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	S. Halliday
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	251
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-7672-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-4039-7672-4
Barcode:	9781403976727

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