{"product_id":"all-electric-narratives","title":"\"All-electric\" Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003ePART I. Contextualising Domestic Electrical Appliances in the Cultural Imagination -- Introduction: Time-Saving Domestic Appliances, Modernity, and the American Century: A Case for the Significance of a Literary Trope -- 1.'Oh So Beautiful is the MixMaster': Appliances in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sinclair Lewis, and Gertrude Stein -- Part II. Mechanisms of Containment: Cold War-Era Literary Responses to the 'All-Electric' Home -- 2. 'Everything in the Ice Box': Appliances in Jack Kerouac and Beat Culture -- 3. 'The Lamentation of a Vacuum Cleaner': Appliance Disappointments in John Cheever and Richard Yates -- Part IV. Gadgets of Protest: Feminism and Civil Rights Short-Circuit the 'All-Electric' Home -- 4. 'I'm a Toaster With a Cunt': Radical Feminist Appliances in Marge Piercy -- 5. 'If a N***** Buys a Woman a Washing Machine': Appliances and Race in Post-War African American Fiction -- PART V. Appliances, Techno-utopianism, and Hyperreality -- 6. 'Like Being Attacked' by a Vacuum Cleaner?: Appliances in Post-War Science Fiction -- 7. 'The Angel of Death Pushes a Vacuum Cleaner': Postmodernist Appliances in Kurt Vonnegut and Don DeLillo -- Conclusion: Appliances, Contemporary Culture, and Twenty-First Century Nostalgia for the 1950s -- Bibliography -- Index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachele Dini\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unknown Publisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 2021\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Unknown Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62813775692147,"sku":"9781501367380","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/0812\/8115\/files\/content_e8cf2281-08d1-44cc-8fb4-1bd68ca29825.jpg?v=1778110861","url":"https:\/\/readaura.store\/products\/all-electric-narratives","provider":"Read Aura","version":"1.0","type":"link"}