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Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

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  • © 2011

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  1. Deirdre Coleman

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Hilary Fraser

    1. University of London, Birkbeck, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction – Minds, Bodies, Machines

    • Deirdre Coleman, Hilary Fraser
    Pages 1-18

  3. Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction

    • Peter Otto
    Pages 19-38

  4. Air-Looms and Influencing Machines

    • Steven Connor
    Pages 39-60

  5. Maternity, Madness and Mechanization

    • Katherine Inglis
    Pages 61-82

  6. Clockwork Automata, Artificial Intelligence and Why the Body of the Author Matters

    • Paul Crosthwaite
    Pages 83-104

  7. Metaphors and Analogies of Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction

    • Marie Banfield
    Pages 105-123

  8. Alfred Wallace’s Conversion

    • Iain McCalman
    Pages 124-139

  9. Molecular Machines and Lascivious Bodies

    • Daniel Brown
    Pages 140-160

  10. Writing the ‘Great Proteus of Disease’

    • James Mussell
    Pages 161-178

  11. Linguistic Trepanation

    • Laura Salisbury
    Pages 179-208

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-230
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About this book

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences.

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'Overall, this is a rewarding and well-assembled collection, required reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine and science as it relates to the history of literature. It suggests a community of scholars - mostly British and Australian, with a few North Americans - committed to an analysis of literature that foregrounds its relation to both embodiment and science.' - Tim Armstrong, New Books on Literature 19

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Deirdre Coleman

  • University of London, Birkbeck, UK

    Hilary Fraser

About the editors

MARIE BANFIELD PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DANIEL BROWN Professor in English, University of Western Australia STEVEN CONNOR Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK PAUL CROSTHWAITE Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK KATHERINE INGLIS received her PhD in 2009 from Birkbeck, University of London, UK IAIN MCCALMAN Research Professor, University of Sydney, Australia JAMES MUSSELL Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham, UK PETER OTTO Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia LAURA SALISBURY RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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