{"product_id":"aesthetic-materialism-9780804761239","title":"Aesthetic Materialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. This work moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, aiming to challenge readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paul Gilmore demonstrates that electricity was central to the discourse of American Romanticism, illuminating both the individual's place in society and the relationship of the soul to the body. After reading \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, one understands far better what Whitman meant when he 'sang the body electric.'\" —David Nye, University of Southern Denmark\u003cbr\u003e\"Paul Gilmore's book stands forth as an indispensable critical work in dealing with the history, transatlantic dimensions, and political promises of American Romantic literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Introduction: The Word \"Aesthetic\" \t000  1.Idealist Aesthetics and the Republican Telegraph\t000  2. Aesthetic Electricity\t000  3. Frederick Douglass's Electric Words: Aesthetic Politics and the Limits of   Identification\t000  4. Mad Filaments: Walt Whitman's Aesthetic Body Telegraphic\t000  Conclusion: Aesthetic Electricity Caged\t000  Notes\t000  Works Cited\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405579264343,"sku":"9780804761239","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804761239.jpg?v=1730492900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aesthetic-materialism-9780804761239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}