TY - BOOK AU - Gilmore,Paul ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Aesthetic materialism: electricity and American romanticism AV - PS217.A35 G55 2009eb U1 - 810.9/003 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Authors, American KW - Aesthetics KW - Electricity in literature KW - Telegraph in literature KW - Romanticism KW - United States KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "Parts of Chapter 3 were originally published in ATQ, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2002. Reprinted by permission of The University of Rhode Island."--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index; Introduction : the word "aesthetic" -- Idealist aesthetics and the republican telegraph -- Aesthetic electricity -- Frederick Douglass's electric words : aesthetic politics and the limits of identification -- Mad filaments : Walt Whitman's aesthetic body telegraphic -- Conclusion : aesthetic electricity caged; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10329909 ER -