Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism

by PaulGilmore (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $85.43

  Focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. This work moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, aiming to challenge readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience.