1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Energies Literature, Technology, Culture
Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Energies Lynn Voskuil
1. "A Transcendentalism in Mechanics": Henry David Thoreau’s Critique of a Free Energy Utopia Lynn Badia
2. Wiring the Body, Wiring the World: Accelerated Times and Telegraphic Obsessions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Mayra Bottaro
3. Whorled: Cyclones, Systems, and the Geographical Imagination Jen Hill
4. Animating the Nineteenth Century: Bringing Pictures to Life (of Life to Pictures?) Tom Gunning
5. Speech Paralysis: Ingestion, Suffocation, and the Torture of Listening Ashley Miller
6. Victorian Hyperobjects Timothy Morton
7. Energy Inefficient: Steam, Petrol and Automotives at the 1889 World’s Fair Anne O’Neil-Henry
8. Pistolgraphs: Liberal Technoagency and the Nineteenth-Century Camera Gun Jason Puskar
9. L’Âme Hu(main)e: Digital Effluvia, Vital Energies, and the Onanistic Occult Lucy Traverse
10. "Another Night that London Knew": Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s "Jenny" and the Poetics of Urban Insomnia Adrian Versteegh
11. Victorian Miser Texts and Potential Energy Elizabeth Coggin Womack
Biography
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.
