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Author Gilmore, Paul, 1970-

Title Aesthetic materialism : electricity and American romanticism / Paul Gilmore.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Aesthetics.
Authors, American.
Aesthetics.
Electricity in literature.
Electricity in literature.
Telegraph in literature.
Telegraph in literature.
Romanticism -- United States.
Romanticism.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gilmore, Paul, 1970- Aesthetic materialism. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009 9780804761239 (DLC) 2008031223 (OCoLC)236117287
ISBN 9780804770972 (electronic book)
0804770972 (electronic book)
080476123X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804761239 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804761239 (cloth ; alkaline paper)