The lives of machines
Subtitle: the industrial imaginary in Victorian literature and culture
By: Tamara Ketabgian
Publisher: University of Michigan Press; University of Michigan Library; U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780472071401; 9780472051403
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human parts and prosthetic networks: the Victorian factory and mesmeric forces; title: Animal machine; title: "Melancholy mad elephants": affect and the animal machine in Hard times; title: Brute appetites: labor and leisure in Mary Barton and early Victorian Manchester energy system; title: Psychic forces: steam, water, and mechanical perception in The mill on the floss; title: "A musical steam engine": sympathy, technique, and industrial community.