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100 1 _aLieberman, Jennifer L.,
_eauthor.
_925145
245 1 0 _aPower lines :
_belectricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 /
_cJennifer L. Lieberman.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_c[2017]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2017]
300 _a1 PDF (288 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aInside technology
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
506 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aHow electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aPrint version record.
650 0 _aElectrification
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_925146
650 0 _aElectric power
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_925147
650 0 _aTechnology in literature
_xHistory.
_925148
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xHistory and criticism.
_925149
655 4 _aElectronic books.
_93294
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_925150
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_925151
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aLieberman, Jennifer L.
_tPower lines.
_dCambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
_z9780262036375
_w(DLC) 2016052817
_w(OCoLC)975270193
830 0 _aInside technology
_921703
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=8025877
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