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UNINA9911100581003321 |
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Autore |
Gilmore Paul <1970-> |
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Aesthetic materialism : electricity and American romanticism / / Paul Gilmore |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (404 p.) |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Authors, American - 19th century - Aesthetics |
Electricity in literature |
Telegraph in literature |
Romanticism - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"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. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index. |
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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. |
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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century electrical imagery reflected the mysterious workings of the physical mind as well as the uncertain, sometimes shocking connections between individuals. Writers such as Whitman, Melville, and Douglass drew on images of electricity and telegraphy to describe literature both as the product of specific economic and social conditions and as a means of transcending the individual determined by such conditions. Aesthetic Materialism moves between historical and |
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cultural analysis and close textual reading, challenging readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience. |
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UNISA996724510503316 |
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Autore |
MAZZOCCA, Antonio |
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La società di professionisti : con particolre riferimento agli avvocati ed ai notai : realtà attuale e prospettive di riforma / Antonio Mazzocca |
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Edizione |
[3. ed. aggiornata] |
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Società di professionisti - Italia - Diritto |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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