Jennifer L Lieberman: 1 book
Power Lines
Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
At the turn of the twentieth century, electricity emerged as a metaphor for modernity. Writers from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison grappled with the idea of electricity as...
