UID:
edocfu_9961436208602883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-009-11848-X
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1-009-11856-0
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1-009-11012-8
Content:
The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata - both human and mechanical - in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Mar 2024).
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The Victorian automata/automatism schema /
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An afterthought on Victorian automata as afterthought (and signifier) /
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The mimetic faculty at work : the golden age of automata /
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Black steam : patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the Victoria android /
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A short history of human-automata interaction /
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The dialectic of automatism and free will /
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The poetry of conscious automatism /
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"No purpose, heart or mind or will" : James thomson (B.V.) and psychological automatism /
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Creative Trollope /
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Darwin and agency : intention or automatism? /
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The automaton detective : Victorian reverberations /
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"A doll, a dummy, a nothing!" : the criminal mesmerist, his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard Marsh /
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The invasion of the white mind : race, automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century /
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Sublime puppets versus uncanny automata : artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature /
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The strange career of Topsy : the problem of automata in the age of slave emancipation /
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George Eliot among the machines /
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A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul : decadent automacy in L'Ève future /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-009-10027-0
Language:
English
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