Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000

ISBN-13: 9780521833929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 170 str.

Nicholas Daly

Opis

Writing for scholars of modernism, literature, and film, Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Although modernity assumes that there is a difference between people and machines, a consequence of this belief has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the "crash," or collision, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860–2000 is inventive, resourceful, and well-grounded in the social and cultural history of the hundred and forty year period the book covers. Daly's book is a great read …' Modernism/Modernity

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Sensation drama, the railway and modernity; 2. Sensation fiction and the modernisation of the senses; 3. The Boerograph; 4. 'It': the last machine and the invention of sex appeal; 5. Crash: flesh, steel, and celluloid.