Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism by Paul Gilmore
Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism by Paul Gilmore
English | 15 Feb. 2009 | ISBN: 080476123X | 256 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 15 Feb. 2009 | ISBN: 080476123X | 256 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
"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.