Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism

By Paul Gilmore

Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism provides a fresh understanding of American romanticism by examining the use of electrical imagery, science, and technology by writers such as Emerson, Fuller, Whitman, and Melville to re-describe literary aesthetics as a transcendent and material practice mediating among socio-economic structures, human physiology and spirituality, and language itself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080476123X
• ISBN13: 9780804761239
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"