Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-32984-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraser, H.

Coleman, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction - Minds, Bodies, Machines; D.Coleman  & H.Fraser Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement, Transport, Affect; P.Otto    Air-Looms and Influencing Machines; S.Connor Maternity, Madness and Mechanization: The Ghastly Automaton in James Hogg's The Three Perils of Woman; K.Inglis  Clockwork Automata, Artificial Intelligence, and Why the Body of the Author Matters; P.Crosthwaite  Metaphors and Analogies of Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction: George Eliot, Henry James and George Meredith; M.Banfield Alfred Wallace's Conversion: Plebian Radicalism and the Spiritual Evolution of the Mind; I.McCalman Molecular Machines and Lascivious Bodies: James Clerk Maxwell's Verse-Born Attacks on Tyndallic Reductionism; D.Brown Writing the 'Great Proteus of Disease': Influenza, Informatics, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth Century; J.Mussell Linguistic Trepanation: Brain Damage, Penetrative Seeing, and a Revolution of the Word; L.Salisbury Coda Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

MARIE BANFIELD PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
DANIEL BROWN Professor in English, University of Western Australia
STEVEN CONNOR Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
PAUL CROSTHWAITE Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK
KATHERINE INGLIS received her PhD in 2009 from Birkbeck, University of London, UK
IAIN MCCALMAN Research Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
JAMES MUSSELL Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham, UK
PETER OTTO Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia
LAURA SALISBURY RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK