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'Halliday's bravura study is a trove of insight and information. It features a remarkable cast of characters, from Samuel Morse and Helen Keller to Hawthorne, Twain, and Daniel Paul Schreber, and it bristles with unexpected connections across technology and culture: mesmerism and slavery, ether and representation, telegraphy and conspiracy. Every page brings illumination; the book can aptly be called 'electrifying.'" - Michael T. Gilmore, Brandeis University
"The most significant aspect of this engaging book is the 'telepathic' connections it makes between seemingly disparate subjects - Dracula and the railway timetable; race and telegraphy; split personality and the telephone exchange. A model of how to do cultural studies, Science and Technology will change the way people think not only about technology and culture at the turn of the twentieth century but also more generally about communication, individuality, and the meaning of the social." - Barbara Will, Dartmouth College.
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Book Title: Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James
Book Subtitle: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Authors: Sam Halliday
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605091
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7672-7Published: 24 July 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53732-7Published: 24 July 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60509-1Published: 11 June 2007
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 251
Topics: North American Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education