Bibliograph

Power lines, electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952, Jennifer L. Lieberman

Type

Label

Power lines, electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952, Jennifer L. Lieberman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Power lines

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

975270193

Responsibility statement

Jennifer L. Lieberman

Series statement

Inside technology

Sub title

electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- 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 and Lewis Mumford's electrifying.humanism -- Conclusion

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