Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. (Electro-) Magnetic Chains
2. Induction Apparatuses
3. Automata
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Kieran M. Murphy is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
“A fascinating and convincing argument that treats the notion of
magnetism in an original way. It will become indispensable reading
for cultural historians who are interested in the connections
between science and the broader literary or social culture in the
eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.”—David Bell,
author of Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola
“With its uncluttered prose and careful explications of thorny
debates and esoteric philosophies, Electromagnetism and the
Metonymic Imagination brings precision to a sometimes fuzzy field
of interdisciplinary inquiry. Literary scholars will learn much
from this book’s cogent analyses, not only about the long history
of magnetism, from the sixth-century Aetius of Amida to today’s
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology, but also about how
that history has been deeply intertwined with—and marked
by—literary reconceptions of imaginative thought.”—Andrea Goulet
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
“Murphy contributes to ongoing studies on the “electric age” by
convincingly demonstrating how electromagnetism drove conceptual
and enduring changes in literary and scientific practices.
Electromagnetic thinking, including the application of metonymic
relations, revealed new ways of ordering and investigating the
world. His comparative approach synthesizes electromagnetic
analogies across discipline, genre, and national
specificities.”—Kameron Sanzo The British Society for Literature
and Science
“By investigating the links between electricity and magnetism,
Murphy uncovers forces that bind the natural and human sciences,
literature and science, and analysis and creativity.”—Lindsey
Grubbs Poe Studies
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