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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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230307537

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770–1930
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 Mind
7 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 Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement,Transport, Affect
Coda: From the posthumous tothe posthuman
Bibliography
Index