How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison. Introduction: power lines -- Mark Twain and the technological fallacy -- Shock and sensibility: the rhetorics of electric execution -- Charlotte Perkins Gil…
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not…
"What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is no…
"What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is no…
Explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture, becoming fundamental to modern life.
Explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture, becoming fundamental to modern life.