Lieberman, Jennifer L.,
Power lines : electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 / Jennifer L. Lieberman. - 1 PDF (288 pages). - Inside technology . - Inside technology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: power lines -- Mark Twain and the technological fallacy -- Shock and sensibility: the rhetorics of electric execution -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's human storage battery and other fantasies of interconnection -- The call of the wires: Jack London and the interpretive flexibility of electrical power -- Ralph Ellison, Lewis Mumford, and the hope of a technological humanism -- Conclusion: the power of lines.
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How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
Mode of access: World Wide Web
9780262340816
Electrification--Social aspects--History.--United States
Electric power--Social aspects--History.--United States
Technology in literature--History.
American literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
HD9685.U5 / L49 2017eb
333.793/2097309041
Power lines : electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 / Jennifer L. Lieberman. - 1 PDF (288 pages). - Inside technology . - Inside technology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: power lines -- Mark Twain and the technological fallacy -- Shock and sensibility: the rhetorics of electric execution -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's human storage battery and other fantasies of interconnection -- The call of the wires: Jack London and the interpretive flexibility of electrical power -- Ralph Ellison, Lewis Mumford, and the hope of a technological humanism -- Conclusion: the power of lines.
Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
Mode of access: World Wide Web
9780262340816
Electrification--Social aspects--History.--United States
Electric power--Social aspects--History.--United States
Technology in literature--History.
American literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
HD9685.U5 / L49 2017eb
333.793/2097309041