Power lines electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 / Jennifer L. Lieberman.
| Author/creator | Lieberman, Jennifer L. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017] |
| Description | ix, 270 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Series | Inside technology |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016052817 |
| ISBN | 9780262036375 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |