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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism; Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
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Romantic Electricity, or the Materiality of Aesthetics
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 467–494.
Published: 01 September 2004
...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...
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Touching a Button
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 31–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... 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...
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... 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...
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Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... 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...
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Embodied Eloquence, the Sumner Assault, and the Transatlantic Cable
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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...
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American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
... 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...
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Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba : Dime-Novel Technology, U.S. Imperialism, and the “American Jules Verne”
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 279–303.
Published: 01 June 2011
... becomes embroiled in problems that his inventions
help him fix. As Clute points out, each invention in an Edisonade is
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both a weapon and a form of transportation, and this is the case with
the series of steam-driven and electric...
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Giving Up
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 791–798.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 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...
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Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... 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...
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Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... . 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...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 669–698.
Published: 01 December 2005
... 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...
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The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature; Captive Arizona, 1851–1900
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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...
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Lynching Photographs; Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 641–643.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... 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...
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Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America; America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2010
...: 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...
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Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900; The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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...
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Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America; Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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.
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The Poetry of War; Male Armor: The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 651–652.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... 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...
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American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam; Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., 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...
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Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics; We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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...
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