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

How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.

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Main Author: Lieberman, Jennifer L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Series:Inside Technology Ser.
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505 0 |a 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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