Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930 [electronic resource] /
Coleman, D.editor.
Fraser, H.editor.
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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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction - Minds, Bodies, Machines; 1 Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement, Transport, Affect; 2 Air-Looms and Influencing Machines; 3 Maternity, Madness and Mechanization: The Ghastly Automaton in James Hogg's The Three Perils of Woman; 4 Clockwork Automata, Artificial Intelligence and Why the Body of the Author Matters; 5 Metaphors and Analogies of Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction: George Eliot, Henry James and George Meredith
6 Alfred Wallace's Conversion: Plebeian Radicalism and the Spiritual Evolution of the Mind7 Molecular Machines and Lascivious Bodies: James Clerk Maxwell's Verse-born Attacks on Tyndallic Reductionism; 8 Writing the 'Great Proteus of Disease': Influenza, Informatics and the Body in the Late Nineteenth Century; 9 Linguistic Trepanation: Brain Damage, Penetrative Seeing and a Revolution of the Word; Coda; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.