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

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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Hlavní autor: Ketabgian, Tamara Siroone, 1969-
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
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