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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-mark” (1843) opens with the observation that “the comparatively recent discovery of electricity… seemed to open paths into the region of miracle” (764). In fact, as one historian has observed, “During the mid-nineteenth century no force in nature was more intriguing to the popular mind than electricity….
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Vetter, L. (2010). “[T]he electric incitement of Eros”: Electromagnetism, Sexuality, and Modernism. In: Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106451_2
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