Andrew Gaedtke (University of Illinois)

Gebundenes Buch

Modernism and the Machinery of Madness

Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds

Beschreibung

Modernism and the Machinery of Madness presents the collapse of categorical distinctions between human and machine in modern fiction and memoirs of mental illness. These works respond to nascent fields of neurology and psychiatry that equated the mind with the brain, reducing mentally patients to 'dysfunctioning neurological machinery'.

Autor

Andrew Gaedtke is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he teaches modernist and contemporary literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781108418003
• ISBN-10: 1108418007
• Artikelnr.: 48386866

Rezensionen

'Modernism and the Machinery of Madness is an ambitious phenomenological project that very successfully informs whilst also providing a myriad of innovative arguments and observations. Gaedtke's incisive and thorough account of the relationship between the discourses of technology and mental disorder is underscored throughout by precision, originality, and enlightening close textual analysis.' Emily Chester, The British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk)