Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James [[electronic resource] ] : Thinking and Writing Electricity / / by S. Halliday

• Autore: Halliday Sam
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 509.73/09034
• Soggetto topico: America - Literatures; Literature - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Ethnology; Culture; Physics - Study and teaching; North American Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Twentieth-Century Literature; Regional Cultural Studies; Education in Physics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Time and Space; 2 Individual Difference and Self-Representation; 3 Sympathy and Reciprocity; 4 Connection and Division; 5 Inclusion and Exclusion; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James
• ISBN: 1-281-36321-9; 9786611363215; 0-230-60509-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825332503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, . 2634-5803