
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James : Thinking and Writing Electricity.
Title:
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James : Thinking and Writing Electricity.
Author:
Halliday, S.
ISBN:
9780230605091
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Series:
American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Thinking and Writing Electricity -- Vitality, Sociality, and the Idea of Ideas -- The Sources of Electrical Thought: Science and Technology -- The Dialectic of Old and New -- The Organization of the Book -- 1 Time and Space -- Introduction -- "Annihilating" Time and Space -- Railroads, Time, and the Logistical Sublime -- Intimacy, Love, and Simultaneity -- Powers of Mind -- Ghosts of Electricity -- Electro-Historicism: Henry Adams -- Powers of Tradition -- Coda: Inventing the "Medium" -- 2 Individual Difference and Self-Representation -- Introduction -- "Training," Telegraphy, and Time -- "The Physiology and Psychology of the Telegraphic Language" -- Difference, Intersubjectivity, and Meaning -- Habits, Speed, and Automatism -- "Training," and the Medium -- "Resembling Oneself," and Portrait Painting -- "In-One-Another" and "After-Each-Other": Bodies and Machines -- Misrepresentation and the Voice -- Distance, Sound, and Sense -- 3 Sympathy and Reciprocity -- Introduction -- God, Reciprocity, and the Spirit of Music -- Mediums, Mesmerists, and "Sympathy" -- From "Sympathy" to Slavery -- Mesmerism and/as Slavery -- Illness, Intuition, and the Electricity of Young Girls -- Ether versus Flesh -- Coda: God's Body, and the Ultimate Life -- 4 Connection and Division -- Introduction -- The Nineteenth-Century Nervous System (1) -- Sex, Disease, and "Civilization" -- Polarity, Perversity, and "Father-Stuff" -- The Nineteenth-Century Nervous System (2) -- Coda: Connection through Division -- 5 Inclusion and Exclusion -- Introduction -- Phenomenology of Secrets -- Publicity, "Detection," and Adultery: Telegraphy in Henry James -- "Underground" or "Mute" Telegraphy, and "Race" -- The End, and the Coming of a "Crisis in God's Realms" -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E.
F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many fascinating hitherto under-studied writers.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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