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Nineteenth-Century Energies: Literature, Technology, Culture

Editat de Lynn Voskuil
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2018
Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of ‘energy’, a concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies today. It examines the cultural perceptions and uses of energy in the nineteenth century – both in terms of pure and applied science, and as an idea with widespread diffusion in the popular imagination – in contributions by scholars drawing on a variety of fields, such as literature, philosophy, history, French studies, Latin American studies, cinema studies, and art history. These contributions explore the rise of insomnia as a recognized ailment, the role of guns and gun culture in the perception of human agency, the first uses of the barometer to predict massive cyclonic weather systems, and the hallucinatory, almost occult effects of radiant energy in early film.
Exemplifying innovative research in twenty-first century academia, this volume also speaks to the wider cultural concerns of today’s global citizen about the preservation and renewal of natural resources around the world; the emergence of devices and technologies that have both improved and impaired human life; the aggrandizement of nation-states around large technological systems; and the centrality of the image in our perception and absorption of contemporary culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367023638
ISBN-10: 0367023636
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Energies  1. "A Transcendentalism in Mechanics": Henry David Thoreau’s Critique of a Free Energy Utopia  2. Wiring the Body, Wiring the World: Accelerated Times and Telegraphic Obsessions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America  3. Whorled: Cyclones, Systems, and the Geographical Imagination  4. Animating the Nineteenth Century: Bringing Pictures to Life (of Life to Pictures?)  5. Speech Paralysis: Ingestion, Suffocation, and the Torture of Listening  6. Victorian Hyperobjects  7. Energy Inefficient: Steam, Petrol and Automotives at the 1889 World’s Fair  8. Pistolgraphs: Liberal Technoagency and the Nineteenth-Century Camera Gun  9. L’Âme Hu(main)e: Digital Effluvia, Vital Energies, and the Onanistic Occult  10. "Another Night that London Knew": Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s "Jenny" and the Poetics of Urban Insomnia  11. Victorian Miser Texts and Potential Energy

Notă biografică

Lynn Voskuil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. She is the author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (2004), and a large number of essays and journal articles. She is currently completing a book manuscript that explores the ecological and imperial history of nineteenth-century exotic horticulture in Britain.

Descriere

Exploring nineteenth-century perceptions of ‘energy’, this book speaks to the roots of many current global concerns about how ‘energy’ is used, renewed, and dispersed. With contributors exploring topics including the rise of insomnia as a recognized ailment, the role of guns and gun culture in the perception of human agency, the first uses of the barometer to predict massive cyclonic weather systems, and the hallucinatory effects of radiant energy in early film, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary study cultural perceptions of energy in the nineteenth century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts.