An edition of Minds, bodies, machines, 1770-1930
(2011)
Minds, bodies, machines, 1770-1930
by Deirdre Coleman and Hilary Fraser
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"It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences."--
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Motiv (Literatur), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, English language, Engels, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature and technology, Bellettrie, Technischer Fortschritt, Maschine, Technological innovations, Technologie, Machines, History, Technology and civilizationPlaces
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, New York
Table of Contents
Introduction: minds, bodies, machines -- Deirdre Coleman and Hilary Fraser -- 1.
Inside the imagination: machines of gothic fiction: estrangement, transport, affect -- Peter Otto -- 2.
Air-looms and influencing machines -- Steven Connor -- 3.
Maternity, madness and mechanization: the ghastly automaton in James Hogg's The Three Perils of Woman -- Katherine Inglis -- 4.
Clockwork automata, artificial intelligence, and why the body of the author matters -- Paul Crosthwaite -- 5.
Metaphors and analogies of mind and body in nineteenth-century science and fiction: George Eliot, Henry James and George Meredith -- Marie Banfield -- 6.
Alfred Wallace's conversion: Plebian radicalism and the spiritual evolution of the mind -- Iain McCalman -- 7.
Molecular machines and lascivious bodies: James Clerk Maxwell's verse-born attacks on Tyndallic reductionism -- Daniel Brown -- 8.
Writing the 'Great Proteus of Disease': influenza, informatics, and the body in the late ineteenth century -- James Mussell -- 9.
Linguistic trepanation: brain damage, penetrative seeing, and a revolution of the word -- Laura Salisbury.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-225) and index.
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