Power lines electricity in american life and letters 1882--1952

Jennifer lieberman, assistant professor of english at the university of north florida, examines the role humanities play in technologic fields. Formalism begat new criticism, which begat structuralism, which begat deconstructionism, and so on. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 by. An interdisciplinary teacherscholar, she specializes in american literature and culture, science and technology studies, gender and women studies, and critical pedagogy. Its interesting and beautiful you dont have to worry about it poisoning you in your sleep like gaslight, says jennifer lieberman, author of power lines. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 on facebook. Writers from mark twain to ralph ellison grappled with the idea of electricity as both life force illumination and death spark electrocution. Power lines archives center for mark twain studies. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 mit press, 2017, lieberman will chronicle how electricity became a metaphor for modern american life in the late nineteenth century. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 2017. How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the united. Teslas dinner party american experience official site pbs. This book chronicles how electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the united states, inspiring authors from mark.

Electricity in american life 18821952 professor buzzkill. Jennifer lieberman power lines and the power of lines. Liebermans power lines uses case studies to consider how americans viewed and wrote about electricity over a span of seventy. Whether life was an honest game of chance, or whether the cards were marked and forced, he could not refuse to play his excellent hand. This event is cosponsored by nd energy and the department of american studies. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952, claims that the idea of technological progress impeded social and humanistic development. Electrical power was a distinctive concept in american literary, cultural, and technological histories. He accepted the situation as though he had been a party to it, and under the same circumstances would do it again, the more readily for knowing the exact. Power lines jennifer l lieberman bok 9780262036375.

At the turn of the twentieth century, electricity emerged as a metaphor for modernity. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952, power lines, jennifer l. Power lines provides a fascinating study of how electricity defined modernity in american fiction from 1880 to 1950. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 at. Find contacts direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. View jennifer liebermans business profile at empty mirror. She is currently working on a new project about incarceration, technology, and literature that grows from her years of experience in prison education outreach. He could never make the usual plea of irresponsibility. This book chronicles how electricity became a metaphor for modernity in. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 jul 14 2017. It demonstrates that many americans invested in the belief that new devices would eventually improve democracy and equality, despite ample evidence to the contraryincluding, most. Stories of a doctors first year of practice in the smoky mountains from the worlds largest community of readers.

Teslas dinner party american experience official site. Its not too often that superacademic science and technology studies books have gorgeous and arresting covers, but this one definitely does. This is not a sophisticated understanding, but it shaped me, and it explains the mingled fascination, surprise, and delight with which i confront jennifer l. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 inside technology. Jennifer lieberman strategies for interdisciplinary. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 inside. In power lines, jennifer lieberman analyzes the way twain, ellison, and others following hawthornes lead used electricity as a metaphor for modernity.

Bridging the realistic and the romantic, the historical and the fantastic, these stories guide us to ask new questions about our enduring fascination with electricity. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 inside technology lieberman, jennifer l. How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the united states, inspiring authors from mark twain to ralph ellison. Jennifer lieberman, university of north florida stem and. His mindset can be inferred from a wonderful letter that henry.

Assistant professor of english, university of north florida. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952, is forthcoming from mit press in 2017. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952, is available from the mit press. For this reason, narratives about electricity were particularly evocative.

Power lines electricity in american life and letters, 1882. Lieberman is assistant professor of english at the university of north florida, where she specializes in american literature and culture. Model behavior is both spare and striking, which puts that little mouse on center stage. Nov 15, 2017 jennifer lieberman, assistant professor of english at the university of north florida, examines the role humanities play in technologic fields. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 is another one. Additionally, she earned unfs presidential diversity and inclusion award in 2017. Online shopping for energy physics from a great selection at books store. Jennifer lieberman examines the apparently incompatible notions of electricity that coexisted in the american imagination, tracing how electricity became a common though multifarious symbol for modern life.

Please consider asking your university library to buy the book. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 inside technology ebook. When and how governments power the lives of the poor nov 27 2018. Electricity in everyday life, volumes i, ii, and iii by houston, edwin j. The result of his impressive attention to detail is a book that will enlighten any reader who is interested in technology, literature, and culture. Power lines jennifer l lieberman bok 9780262036375 bokus.

Creative criticism unf digital humanities institute. How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the united states. Jennifer lieberman strategies for interdisciplinary writing. Jennifer l lieberman how electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the united states, inspiring authors from mark twain to ralph ellison. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 was published by mit press in 2017. It demonstrates that many americans invested in the belief that new devices would eventually improve democracy and equality, despite ample evidence to the contraryincluding. Creative criticism unf digital humanities institute project. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952, this transition from whether to how changed the way americans perceived the issue of capital punishment. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 july 2019 276 pp. Power lines electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 jennifer l. Electricity, landscape, and the american mind by daniel l.

Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952, which was published by mit press in july 2017. These are a few of the questions that i address in my book, power lines. In this model interdisciplinary work, jennifer lieberman demonstrates how authors define technologies through a provocative communicative process that continues long after the initial act of invention. Drawing on science, technology, and society, american studies, and literary studies, this talklike the bookdemonstrates. Power lines examines a series of moments of technical change when electricity accrued new social meaning, plotting both power lines and the power of narratives in american life and literature. Dominic and cymene go into the vault to talk steam tunnels, heat wells, bland college town food and enrico fermis ghost. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 mit press. Power lines examines a series of moments of technical change when electricity accrued new social meaning, plotting both power lines and the power. Why technology will not solve our criminal justice. Electricity in american life and letters, 18821952 mit press, 2017. My book begins by exploring why authors, like twain, who were primarily concerned with humanistic questions, would discuss electrification so intently. The shape of power is always the same public books. Lieberman is an assistant professor of english at the university of north florida unf, and author of power lines.