Just to mention this book, for those colleagues who haven't spotted it. Sam Halliday, Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (Palgrave Macmillan 2007). Some good material here on 'Mental Telegraphy', 'The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence etc.'  and Connecticut Yankee. I did supervise Sam's work a long time ago at MA stage so am not completely disinterested but this is (to my mind) a very interesting book on its subject. Pete M.

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