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Book Review


A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. By James Delbourgo. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 367 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02299-7.)
In this groundbreaking book, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders, James Delbourgo shows us how pervasively electricity coursed through the bodies, technologies, imaginations, and rhetorics of early America. Moving beyond the "lone figure of [Benjamin] Franklin," Delbourgo describes how Anglo-American science "came to life as a culture of experimental performance in a commercial [and religious] public sphere spanning the Atlantic Ocean" (p. 7). . . .
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