Power Lines: Electric Networks and the American Literary Imagination

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Abstract

Between 1870 and 1916 electricity occupied the minds of some of America's most prominent authors. Before Mark Twain published A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), he visited Nikola Tesla's laboratory and recognized that the alternating-current machine he saw there would revolutionize American life.
Original languageAmerican English
QualificationPh.D.
Awarding Institution
Date of AwardMay 25 2011
StatePublished - May 25 2011

Disciplines

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Sociology

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