Garelick's literary piece, Electric Salome: Love Fuller's Performance of Modernism, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2007, was deemed a "vibrant and scholarly text"[3][according to whom?]
which examines Loie Fuller's contribution to the development of modernist dance and drama performance at the beginning of the twentieth century.
To exemplify, Garelick writes "When [Thomas] Edison placed her hand inside the machine [a fluoroscope] she was thrilled to see her flesh turn translucent, to see her body's solidity dissolve.
[4] Throughout the book, Garelick calls Fuller's actions "disingenuous" due to her statements and methods conflicting with her behaviors.
Fuller spent much time exploring human nature, sexual drives, the relationship between illusion and reality, and the transformation of the body through mechanized means.