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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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2011.
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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.