Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Victorian Automata

Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century

Av Suzy Anger, Thomas Vranken

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-28
Mått: 158 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt: 680 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 360
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009100274

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Suzy Anger teaches English and Science Technology Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is author of the Rudikoff Prize-winning Victorian Interpretation (2005), editor of Knowing the Past (1999), and co-editor of Victorian Science as Cultural Authority (2011). She is past President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. Thomas Vranken is a lecturer in literary studies at the University of the South Pacific. His research explores nineteenth-century literature's relationship with technology and print culture. He is the author of Simulating Antiquity in Boys' Adventure Fiction: Maps and Ink Stains (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialisation (2019).

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'This fascinating and thoroughly readable collection invites us into the longer histories of our own encounters with driverless cars and artificial intelligence. Revealing just how central the automaton was to nineteenth-century intellectual life, these wide-ranging essays make an invaluable - and timely - contribution to our understanding of the period, from its theories of consciousness, racial difference, and labour, to its debates over instinct and agency.' Tina Young Choi, Professor of English, York University

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