Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Minds, Bodies, Machines / D. Coleman and 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.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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