Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology

Shows how the scientific question, 'Are we automata?', was addressed in late nineteenth-century literature and the arts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the nineteenth-century debate over human automatisms; Part I. Automata-Phobia: 1. J. S. Mill: genius-automaton; 2. Automatic aesthetics and the shame of tourism; Part II. Technologies of the Automatic: Process and Movement: 3. Photography's automatisms; 4. Automatic writing and physiologies of creativity; 5. The automata ballets.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Linda M. Austin is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. She has written on the connections between the fine arts, economics, and psychology. She is the author of The Practical Ruskin (1991) and Nostalgia in Transition (2007), as well as articles published in such journals as English Literary History, Studies in Romanticism, Modernism/modernity, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Modern Language Quarterly.

Zusammenfassung

Linda M. Austin explores the ways in which scientific questions about the relation between human beings and automata, raised by the 'new psychology' of the late nineteenth century, forced the re-examination of creativity in literature, photography, ballet, and high-level mental activities.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Linda M Austin, Linda M. Austin, Linda M. (Oklahoma State University) Austin, Linda Marilyn Austin, Austin Linda M.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108428552
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42855-2
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; History of Ideas, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social, group or collective psychology, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899