"This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture. Ranging across a vast array of materials, Halliday shows how electricity functioned as both a means of representing "other" things - from love and solidarity to embodiment and temporality - and as an object of representation in its own right. As well as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James, the book considers other major American writers...