Exploring nineteenth-century perceptions of 'energy', this book speaks to the roots of many current global concerns about how 'energy' is used, renewed, and dispersed. With contributors exploring topics including the rise of insomnia as a recognized ailment, the role of guns and gun culture in the perception of human agency, the first uses of the barometer to predict massive cyclonic weather systems, and the hallucinatory effects of radiant energy in early film, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary study cultural perceptions of energy in the nineteenth century. This book was originally…mehr
Exploring nineteenth-century perceptions of 'energy', this book speaks to the roots of many current global concerns about how 'energy' is used, renewed, and dispersed. With contributors exploring topics including the rise of insomnia as a recognized ailment, the role of guns and gun culture in the perception of human agency, the first uses of the barometer to predict massive cyclonic weather systems, and the hallucinatory effects of radiant energy in early film, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary study cultural perceptions of energy in the nineteenth century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Lynn Voskuil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. She is the author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (2004), and a large number of essays and journal articles. She is currently completing a book manuscript that explores the ecological and imperial history of nineteenth-century exotic horticulture in Britain.
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Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Energies 1. "A Transcendentalism in Mechanics": Henry David Thoreau's Critique of a Free Energy Utopia 2. Wiring the Body, Wiring the World: Accelerated Times and Telegraphic Obsessions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America 3. Whorled: Cyclones, Systems, and the Geographical Imagination 4. Animating the Nineteenth Century: Bringing Pictures to Life (of Life to Pictures?) 5. Speech Paralysis: Ingestion, Suffocation, and the Torture of Listening 6. Victorian Hyperobjects 7. Energy Inefficient: Steam, Petrol and Automotives at the 1889 World's Fair 8. Pistolgraphs: Liberal Technoagency and the Nineteenth-Century Camera Gun 9. L'Âme Hu(main)e: Digital Effluvia, Vital Energies, and the Onanistic Occult 10. "Another Night that London Knew": Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Jenny" and the Poetics of Urban Insomnia 11. Victorian Miser Texts and Potential Energy
Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Energies 1. "A Transcendentalism in Mechanics": Henry David Thoreau's Critique of a Free Energy Utopia 2. Wiring the Body, Wiring the World: Accelerated Times and Telegraphic Obsessions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America 3. Whorled: Cyclones, Systems, and the Geographical Imagination 4. Animating the Nineteenth Century: Bringing Pictures to Life (of Life to Pictures?) 5. Speech Paralysis: Ingestion, Suffocation, and the Torture of Listening 6. Victorian Hyperobjects 7. Energy Inefficient: Steam, Petrol and Automotives at the 1889 World's Fair 8. Pistolgraphs: Liberal Technoagency and the Nineteenth-Century Camera Gun 9. L'Âme Hu(main)e: Digital Effluvia, Vital Energies, and the Onanistic Occult 10. "Another Night that London Knew": Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Jenny" and the Poetics of Urban Insomnia 11. Victorian Miser Texts and Potential Energy
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