アメリカ・ロマン主義と電気の美学 Aesthetic Materialism : Electricity and American Romanticism

Gilmore, Paul

Stanford University Press（2009/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780804761239
• DDC分類 810.9003

基本説明

Focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity.

Full Description

Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism 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. Aesthetic Materialism 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.

Contents

Contents Introduction: The Word "Aesthetic" 000 1.Idealist Aesthetics and the Republican Telegraph 000 2. Aesthetic Electricity 000 3. Frederick Douglass's Electric Words: Aesthetic Politics and the Limits of Identification 000 4. Mad Filaments: Walt Whitman's Aesthetic Body Telegraphic 000 Conclusion: Aesthetic Electricity Caged 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000