Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: The Word “Aesthetic” 1
5. 1. Idealist Aesthetics and the Republican Telegraph 19
6. 2. Aesthetic Electricity 64
7. 3. Frederick Douglass’s Electric Words: Aesthetic Politics and the Limits of Identification 111
8. 4. Mad Filaments: Walt Whitman’s Aesthetic Body Telegraphic 143
9. Conclusion: Aesthetic Electricity Caged 177
10. Notes 191
11. Works Cited 219
12. Index 237