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Author Murphy, Kieran M. (Kieran Marcellin), 1977- author.

Title Electromagnetism and the metonymic imagination / Kieran M. Murphy
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (180 pages)
Series AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
AnthropoScene.
Contents (Electro- )magnetic chains -- Induction apparatuses -- Automata
Summary "Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2020)
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de, 1838-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de, 1838-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 fast
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de, 1838-1889 fast
Subject Electromagnetism in literature.
Metonyms.
Literature and science.
metonymy.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Electromagnetism in literature
Literature and science
Metonyms
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271087368
0271087366
9780271087344
027108734X