Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

Zusatztext 'Overall! this is a rewarding and well-assembled collection! required reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine and science as it relates to the history of literature. It suggests a community of scholars - mostly British and Australian! with a few North Americans - committed to an analysis of literature that foregrounds its relation to both embodiment and science.' - Tim Armstrong! New Books on Literature 19 Informationen zum Autor MARIE BANFIELD PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, UKDANIEL BROWN Professor in English, University of Western AustraliaSTEVEN CONNOR Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKPAUL CROSTHWAITE Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UKKATHERINE INGLIS received her PhD in 2009 from Birkbeck, University of London, UKIAIN MCCALMAN Research Professor, University of Sydney, Australia JAMES MUSSELL Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham, UKPETER OTTO Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Melbourne, AustraliaLAURA SALISBURY RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction - Minds, Bodies, Machines; D.Coleman  & 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 Notes Index...

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction - Minds, Bodies, Machines; D.Coleman & 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 Notes Index

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'Overall, this is a rewarding and well-assembled collection, required reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine and science as it relates to the history of literature. It suggests a community of scholars - mostly British and Australian, with a few North Americans - committed to an analysis of literature that foregrounds its relation to both embodiment and science.' - Tim Armstrong, New Books on Literature 19

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• Authors: Deirdre Fraser Coleman
• Assisted by: Coleman (Editor), D Coleman (Editor), D. Coleman (Editor), Fraser (Editor), Fraser (Editor), H. Fraser (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781349329847
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32984-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy