Lieberman, Jennifer L., <br/><br/>
Power lines :  electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 / 
Jennifer L. Lieberman. 
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 - Inside technology .
 - Inside technology .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/> How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262340816 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Electrification--Social aspects--History.--United States<br/>Electric power--Social aspects--History.--United States<br/>Technology in literature--History.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9685.U5  / L49 2017eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.793/2097309041