Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930
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Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

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Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930 by D. Coleman, H. Fraser, D. Coleman,H. Fraser in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770–1930
  3. Contents
  4. Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Introduction – Minds, Bodies, Machines
  8. 1 Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement,Transport, Affect
  9. 2 Air-Looms and Influencing Machines
  10. 3 Maternity, Madness and Mechanization: The Ghastly Automaton in James Hogg’s The Three Perils of Woman
  11. 4 Clockwork Automata, Artificial Intelligence and Why the Body of the Author Matters
  12. 5 Metaphors and Analogies of Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction: George Eliot, Henry James and George Meredith
  13. 6 Alfred Wallace’s Conversion: Plebeian Radicalism and the Spiritual Evolution of the Mind
  14. 7 Molecular Machines and Lascivious Bodies: James Clerk Maxwell’s Verse-born Attacks on Tyndallic Reductionism
  15. 8 Writing the ‘Great Proteus of Disease’: Influenza, Informatics and the Body in the Late Nineteenth Century
  16. 9 Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement,Transport, Affect
  17. Coda: From the posthumous tothe posthuman
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index