{"product_id":"aesthetic-materialism-paul-gilmore-9780804761239","title":"Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century electrical imagery reflected the mysterious workings of the physical mind as well as the uncertain, sometimes shocking connections between individuals. Writers such as Whitman, Melville, and Douglass drew on images of electricity and telegraphy to describe literature both as the product of specific economic and social conditions and as a means of transcending the individual determined by such conditions. \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, challenging readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Gilmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080476123X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804761239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/13\/2009 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 273","brand":"Paul Gilmore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926228107519,"sku":"9780804761239","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_104809b9-502b-46fb-b113-dd6fa5287571.jpg?v=1681081909","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aesthetic-materialism-paul-gilmore-9780804761239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}