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...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism . By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics...

...Paul Gilmore Duke University 2004 Paul Romantic Electricity, or the Gilmore Materiality of Aesthetics Perhaps the central problem for contemporary crit- ics who address aesthetics is defining exactly what we mean by the term. In addition to the abundance...

... of the electric chair at Sing Sing prison alongside James Weldon Johnson's 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , the essay argues that these texts invite us to recast early twentieth-century black resistance in electrical terms, terms that expose racial violence as a function of technological...

... of this inattention and misreading has been a result of failing to see how Lin's engagement with the discourse on technology (and especially his decades-long attempt to invent an electric Chinese typewriter) was central to both his literary work and its transnational circulation. Whereas some scholars have argued...

... with only about three thousand miles operational “at the commencement of 1848” (“The Progress of the Electric Telegraph,” Atlantic Monthly , March 1860, 290), held a strange fascination for the nature-loving transcendentalist. Otherwise generally skeptical of technological novelties, Thoreau...

... within an inch of his life Massachusetts Sena- tor Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate, the future U.S. Attorney General Richard Dana Jr. wrote a letter to the recuperating Sumner, describing the political effect of the assault using the rheto- ric of electricity. “When...

... company, New Kanawha Power (Union Carbide had formed this subsidiary for the purpose of receiving government public- works funding), intended to construct infrastructure for public use while providing jobs in the public sector. It was soon revealed that all the electrical power to be generated...

... becomes embroiled in problems that his inventions help him fix. As Clute points out, each invention in an Edisonade is Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba 285 both a weapon and a form of transportation, and this is the case with the series of steam-­driven and electric...

... that presses this question as compellingly as does Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ( 1968 ). Its film adaptation, Blade Runner (Scott 1982 ), is justly renowned, even if it did take over a decade to earn the popular following it now enjoys, but one of the things lost in translation...

... discomfort and disjointed thought processes invites them to connect the dots that he cannot. The sensory aphasia that results from the experiment’s damage to his Wernicke’s area makes readers active collaborators in deciphering the narrator’s circumstances. Electrical shocks blur his vision, preventing...

... . The General and Particular Principles of Animal Electricity and Magnetism . London : Printed for the author . ———. 1792b . Animal Electricity and Magnetism Demonstrated . Lancaster, PA : J. Bailey and W. Dickson . Borch-Jacobsen Mikkel . 1993 . The Emotional Tie: Psychoanalysis, Mimesis...

... the organiza- tion and arrangement of space itself. Befitting a Thomas Edison pro- duction, electricity serves as the invisible medium animating move- ment, at least for the first three shots, especially between exteriors and interiors. The second close-up shot signals this movement from outer to inner...

... Smith. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xxxiii, 255 pp. $40.00. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s...

.... Rice. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. xv, 324 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.95. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth...

...: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009. xxvi, 125 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s...

... and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War . By Maureen Ryan. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2008. xi, 340 pp. Cloth, $98.00; paper, $34.95. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008...

... and American Popular Culture: An Introduction . By Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. x, 302 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $22.00. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008...

.... of Virginia Press. 2008. xi, 160 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.50. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics...

..., Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler . By Tobey C. Herzog. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. xii, 217 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature...

... in Yoeme Performances . By David Delgado Shorter. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xiii, 373 pp. $45.00. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature...