The Lives of Machines : The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture /

The Lives of Machines : The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture /

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Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that "let off steam" or feel "under pressure." The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely hum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ketabgian, Tamara Siroone, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects.
Machinery in literature.
Machinery.
Literature and technology.
English literature.
History / Europe / Great Britain.
Machines > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Machines dans la litterature.
Litterature et technologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Technology > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Machinery > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Human parts and prosthetic networks : the Victorian factory and mesmeric forces
  • Animal machine
  • "Melancholy mad elephants" : affect and the animal machine in Hard times
  • Brute appetites : labor and leisure in Mary Barton and early Victorian Manchester
  • Psychic forces : steam, water, and mechanical perception in The mill on the floss
  • "A musical steam engine" : sympathy, technique, and industrial commaunity.

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