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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 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.

American literature --- Authors, American --- Electricity in literature. --- Telegraph in literature. --- Romanticism --- American authors --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Electricity in literature --- Telegraph in literature --- History and criticism --- Aesthetics

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The scientific discovery and mastery of electricity created as many important changes in modern society as did the invention of alphabetical writing in antiquity and movable type in the fifteenth century. It is more than a natural phenomenon that science has harnessed for human use; it is a central feature of the modern episteme. It has inspired writers and artists, propelled industry and innovation, and reshaped human social behaviour. Looking at a variety of topics including film, politics, and contemporary art, this volume explores the impact of electricity on knowledge, social practices, media, community life, and subjective experience. La découverte scientifique et la maîtrise de l'électricité ont bouleversé notre société au même titre que l'invention de l'écriture alphabétique durant l'Antiquité et de l'imprimerie à caractères mobiles au XVe siècle. Il ne s'agit pas seulement d'un phénomène naturel mis au service de l'homme par la science, mais d'un élément central de l'épistémè moderne : l'électricité a inspiré des écrivains et des artistes, a servi de force d'impulsion au monde de l'industrie et de l'innovation et a redéfini les comportements sociaux. En explorant l'incidence de l'électricité sur le savoir, les prati

Electricity -- Social aspects. --- Electricity in art. --- Electricity in literature. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Electricity & Magnetism --- Électricité dans la littérature. --- Electricity --- Électricit --- Électricité dans l'art. --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social. --- Galvanism --- Électricite dans la litterature. --- Électricite dans l'art. --- Électricite --- Électricité --- Mathematical physics --- Magnetism --- innovation --- discovery --- science --- electricity