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Science and technology in the age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James : thinking and writing electricity
This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many fascinating hitherto under-studied writers.
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Helen Keller, Henry James, and the Social Relations of Perception
To be sure, there may seem no immediately compelling reason why one should explore this connection-for a start, The Bos tonions appeared almost two decades before Keller became famous, so there can be no question of the latter having \"influenced\" the former-but the wager of this essay is nonetheless that such exploration is worthwhile, and that in doing this, one illuminates not only James's oeuvre (including texts written after Keller's rise to fame), but also, conversely, Keller's hitherto underappreciated significance in American cultural and intellectual life.5 Deaf and blind from the age of nineteen months, Keller experienced a particularly extreme version of Olive and Verena's \"incompletion\"-the total devastation of at least two organic \"facets.\" \"9 (The same intent, of course, I argue, should also govern our response to Keller.) Perhaps because of this, my substantive argument echoes Posnock's own at several points, not least in stressing James's flamboyantly avowed responsiveness to sensory impressions, and his understanding of aesthetic pleasure \"not as idealist contemplation but as practice indissolubly entangled in social experience.
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History, “Civilization,” and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
This chapter contains sections titled:
“The Excess of Yankee Curiosity”: Twain with Beard
“The Joys of Cruelty”: Twain with Nietzsche
“The Economics of our Happiness”: Twain with Freud
Conclusion: The “Battle of the Sand Belt”
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Photonic chip-based low noise microwave oscillator
Numerous modern technologies are reliant on the low-phase noise and exquisite timing stability of microwave signals. Substantial progress has been made in the field of microwave photonics, whereby low noise microwave signals are generated by the down-conversion of ultra-stable optical references using a frequency comb. Such systems, however, are constructed with bulk or fiber optics and are difficult to further reduce in size and power consumption. Our work addresses this challenge by leveraging advances in integrated photonics to demonstrate low-noise microwave generation via two-point optical frequency division. Narrow linewidth self-injection locked integrated lasers are stabilized to a miniature Fabry-Pérot cavity, and the frequency gap between the lasers is divided with an efficient dark-soliton frequency comb. The stabilized output of the microcomb is photodetected to produce a microwave signal at 20 GHz with phase noise of -96 dBc/Hz at 100 Hz offset frequency that decreases to -135 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset--values which are unprecedented for an integrated photonic system. All photonic components can be heterogeneously integrated on a single chip, providing a significant advance for the application of photonics to high-precision navigation, communication and timing systems.
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