Victorian Automata
Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century
Herausgeber: Anger, Suzy; Vranken, Thomas
Victorian Automata
Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century
Herausgeber: Anger, Suzy; Vranken, Thomas
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"Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--
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"Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: European Community
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 649g
- ISBN-13: 9781009100274
- ISBN-10: 1009100270
- Artikelnr.: 70204333
- Verlag: European Community
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 649g
- ISBN-13: 9781009100274
- ISBN-10: 1009100270
- Artikelnr.: 70204333
List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: the Victorian
automata/automatism schema Suzy Anger; An afterthought on Victorian
automata as afterthought (and signifier) Thomas Vranken; Part I. Mechanical
Automata: 1. The mimetic faculty at work: the golden age of automata Kara
Reilly; 2. Black steam: patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the
Victorian android Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord; 3. A short
history of human-automata interaction Simone Natale; Part II. Automatism:
4. The dialectic of automatism and free will Roger Smith; 5. The poetry of
conscious automatism Suzy Anger; 6. 'No purpose, heart or mind or will':
James Thomson (B. V.) and psychological automatism Tyson Stolte; 7.
Creative trollope Linda Austin; 8. Darwin and agency - intention or
automatism? George Levine; Part III. Literary Genre and Popular Fiction: 9.
The automaton detective: Victorian reverberations Thomas Vranken and
Stephen Knight; 10. 'A doll, a dummy, a nothing!': the criminal mesmerist,
his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard
Marsh Shuhita Bhattacharjee; 11. The invasion of the white mind: race,
automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century Aren
Roukema; Part IV. Interactions: 12. Sublime puppets versus uncanny
automata: artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature Minsoo Kang;
13. The strange career of topsy: the problem of automata in the age of
slave emancipation Chris Dingwall; 14. George Eliot among the machines
Sally Shuttleworth; 15. A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul:
decadent automacy in L'Ève Future Richard Menke; Index.
automata/automatism schema Suzy Anger; An afterthought on Victorian
automata as afterthought (and signifier) Thomas Vranken; Part I. Mechanical
Automata: 1. The mimetic faculty at work: the golden age of automata Kara
Reilly; 2. Black steam: patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the
Victorian android Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord; 3. A short
history of human-automata interaction Simone Natale; Part II. Automatism:
4. The dialectic of automatism and free will Roger Smith; 5. The poetry of
conscious automatism Suzy Anger; 6. 'No purpose, heart or mind or will':
James Thomson (B. V.) and psychological automatism Tyson Stolte; 7.
Creative trollope Linda Austin; 8. Darwin and agency - intention or
automatism? George Levine; Part III. Literary Genre and Popular Fiction: 9.
The automaton detective: Victorian reverberations Thomas Vranken and
Stephen Knight; 10. 'A doll, a dummy, a nothing!': the criminal mesmerist,
his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard
Marsh Shuhita Bhattacharjee; 11. The invasion of the white mind: race,
automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century Aren
Roukema; Part IV. Interactions: 12. Sublime puppets versus uncanny
automata: artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature Minsoo Kang;
13. The strange career of topsy: the problem of automata in the age of
slave emancipation Chris Dingwall; 14. George Eliot among the machines
Sally Shuttleworth; 15. A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul:
decadent automacy in L'Ève Future Richard Menke; Index.
List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: the Victorian
automata/automatism schema Suzy Anger; An afterthought on Victorian
automata as afterthought (and signifier) Thomas Vranken; Part I. Mechanical
Automata: 1. The mimetic faculty at work: the golden age of automata Kara
Reilly; 2. Black steam: patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the
Victorian android Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord; 3. A short
history of human-automata interaction Simone Natale; Part II. Automatism:
4. The dialectic of automatism and free will Roger Smith; 5. The poetry of
conscious automatism Suzy Anger; 6. 'No purpose, heart or mind or will':
James Thomson (B. V.) and psychological automatism Tyson Stolte; 7.
Creative trollope Linda Austin; 8. Darwin and agency - intention or
automatism? George Levine; Part III. Literary Genre and Popular Fiction: 9.
The automaton detective: Victorian reverberations Thomas Vranken and
Stephen Knight; 10. 'A doll, a dummy, a nothing!': the criminal mesmerist,
his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard
Marsh Shuhita Bhattacharjee; 11. The invasion of the white mind: race,
automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century Aren
Roukema; Part IV. Interactions: 12. Sublime puppets versus uncanny
automata: artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature Minsoo Kang;
13. The strange career of topsy: the problem of automata in the age of
slave emancipation Chris Dingwall; 14. George Eliot among the machines
Sally Shuttleworth; 15. A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul:
decadent automacy in L'Ève Future Richard Menke; Index.
automata/automatism schema Suzy Anger; An afterthought on Victorian
automata as afterthought (and signifier) Thomas Vranken; Part I. Mechanical
Automata: 1. The mimetic faculty at work: the golden age of automata Kara
Reilly; 2. Black steam: patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the
Victorian android Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord; 3. A short
history of human-automata interaction Simone Natale; Part II. Automatism:
4. The dialectic of automatism and free will Roger Smith; 5. The poetry of
conscious automatism Suzy Anger; 6. 'No purpose, heart or mind or will':
James Thomson (B. V.) and psychological automatism Tyson Stolte; 7.
Creative trollope Linda Austin; 8. Darwin and agency - intention or
automatism? George Levine; Part III. Literary Genre and Popular Fiction: 9.
The automaton detective: Victorian reverberations Thomas Vranken and
Stephen Knight; 10. 'A doll, a dummy, a nothing!': the criminal mesmerist,
his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard
Marsh Shuhita Bhattacharjee; 11. The invasion of the white mind: race,
automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century Aren
Roukema; Part IV. Interactions: 12. Sublime puppets versus uncanny
automata: artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature Minsoo Kang;
13. The strange career of topsy: the problem of automata in the age of
slave emancipation Chris Dingwall; 14. George Eliot among the machines
Sally Shuttleworth; 15. A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul:
decadent automacy in L'Ève Future Richard Menke; Index.