Power lines : electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 / Jennifer L. Lieberman.
By: Lieberman, Jennifer L [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Inside technology: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2017]Description: 1 PDF (288 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262340816.Subject(s): Electrification -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Electric power -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Technology in literature -- History | American literature -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 333.793/2097309041 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: power lines -- Mark Twain and the technological fallacy -- Shock and sensibility: the rhetorics of electric execution -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's human storage battery and other fantasies of interconnection -- The call of the wires: Jack London and the interpretive flexibility of electrical power -- Ralph Ellison, Lewis Mumford, and the hope of a technological humanism -- Conclusion: the power of lines.
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How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
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