Literature, Technology and Modernity, 1860-2000

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Daly is Lecturer in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Modernism! Romance! and the Fin de Siecle: Popular Fiction and British Culture! 1880-1914 (Cambridge! 1999)! and of articles in Novel! ELH! Victorian Studies! New Formations! among others. Klappentext Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s onwards. Zusammenfassung Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on. He argues that collisions! literal and metaphorical! dramatise the relationship between the individual and the industrial society! and suggests that the pleasures of fictional suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Sensation drama, the railway and modernity; 2. Sensation fiction and the modernisation of the senses; 3. The Boerograph; 4. 'It': the last machine and the invention of sex appeal; 5. Crash: flesh, steel, and celluloid.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Daly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2004
• EAN: 9780521833929
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83392-9
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies