Victorian Automata
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Victorian Automata
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Author : Suzy Anger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-31
Victorian Automata written by Suzy Anger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of scholars, this collection examines the Victorians' profound fascination with automata.
Victorian Automata
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Author : Suzy Anger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-03-20
Victorian Automata written by Suzy Anger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata - both human and mechanical - in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Genesis Redux
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Author : Jessica Riskin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-02-15
Genesis Redux written by Jessica Riskin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with Science categories.
Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely been driven by an impulse to reduce life and mind to machinery. On the contrary, designers of synthetic creatures have generally assumed a role for something nonmechanical. The history of artificial life is thus also a history of theories of soul and intellect. Taking a historical approach to a modern quandary, Genesis Redux is essential reading for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and anyone engaged in evaluating these world-changing projects.
Automatism And Creative Acts In The Age Of New Psychology
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Author : Linda M. Austin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-14
Automatism And Creative Acts In The Age Of New Psychology written by Linda M. Austin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with Art categories.
Shows how the scientific question, 'Are we automata?', was addressed in late nineteenth-century literature and the arts.
Steaming Into A Victorian Future
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Author : Julie Anne Taddeo
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Steaming Into A Victorian Future written by Julie Anne Taddeo and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on—and interrelationship with—popular culture and the wider society.
How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon
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Author : Iwan Rhys Morus
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2022-11-03
How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon written by Iwan Rhys Morus and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Science categories.
'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism ... Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' - DUNCAN BELL, NEW STATESMAN '[ How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon] rattles thrillingly through such developments as the Transatlantic telegraph cable, the steam locomotive and electric power and recalls the excitable predictions of the fiction of the time.' KATY GUEST, THE GUARDIAN 'Excellent ... A terrific insight into why the Victorian era was a golden age of engineering.' - NICK SMITH, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was completely unprecedented in human history. And as the Victorians looked to the skies and beyond as the next frontier to be explored and conquered, they were inventing, shaping and moulding the very idea of the future. To get us to this future, the Victorians created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilisation of the resources of Empire - and they revolutionised science in the process. In this rich and absorbing book, distinguished historian of science Iwan Rhys Morus tells the story of how this future was made. From Charles Babbage's dream of mechanising mathematics to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel beneath the Thames, from George Cayley's fantasies of powered flight to Nikola Tesla's visions of an electrical world, this is a story of towering personalities, clashing ambitions, furious rivalries and conflicting cultures - a vibrant tapestry of remarkable lives that transformed the world and ultimately took us to the Moon.
England S Secret Weapon
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Author : Amanda Field
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2012-07-19
England S Secret Weapon written by Amanda Field and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with Performing Arts categories.
England's Secret Weapon explores the way Hollywood used Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films spanning the years of World War II in Europe, from The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939 to Dressed to Kill in 1946. Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Holmes has influenced every actor who has since played him on film, TV, stage and radio, yet the film series has, until now, been neglected in terms of detailed critical analysis. The book looks at the films themselves in combination with their historical context and examines how the studio ‘updated' Holmes and recruited him to fight the Nazis, steering a careful course between modernising the detective and making sure he was still recognisable as the ‘old Holmes’ in clothes, locations and behaviour.
Fairy Tales Natural History And Victorian Culture
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Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-04
Fairy Tales Natural History And Victorian Culture written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-04 with Fiction categories.
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
Deviance In Neo Victorian Culture
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Author : Saverio Tomaiuolo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-03
Deviance In Neo Victorian Culture written by Saverio Tomaiuolo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ‘diverging’ from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways in which the Victorian age has been revised by contemporary authors does not only entail analogies with the present but proves – by introducing what is perhaps a more pertinent description of the nineteenth century – that it was much more ‘deviant’ than it is usually depicted and perceived. Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture: Canon, Transgression, Innovation explores a wide variety of textual forms, from novels to TV series, from movies and graphic novels to visual art. The scholarly and educational purpose of this study is to stimulate readers to approach neo-Victorianism as a complex cultural phenomenon.
The Waltzing Body In Victorian Literature
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Author : Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-03-27
The Waltzing Body In Victorian Literature written by Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature: Narratives of Sexuality and Power traces the evolution of the waltz from a taboo dance in the early nineteenth century to a gracefully nostalgic practice that must be preserved by the century's end. While Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk references eighteenth-century authors to frame the waltz's initial reception in England, the study focuses primarily on Victorian authors who shaped how and why this dance was paradoxically viewed as elegant, effeminate, and sterile. Hadyk explores female sexuality and the concept of choice in the ballroom; a shifting and sometimes contradictory understanding of masculinity through male performance; the erasure of and reclamation of queer desire in heterosexual courting spaces; and the rhetoric of new technologies that attempted to contain, shape, and memorialize a temporal art form. A brief epilogue considers how late-Victorian (and heavily sanitized and romanticized) depictions of the waltz reverberate today in popular films and reality TV, which perpetuate Victorian assumptions about class, gender, sexuality, and more. By understanding the history of the waltz, the reader is invited to examine the dizzying discomfort that many Victorians expressed about forging ahead into a modern (and modernizing) world, particularly at the turn of the century. With comparatively little scholarship around understanding dance scenes and dance semiotics in literature, this book articulates a new interpretive path for familiar and unfamiliar nineteenth-century narratives, offering new ways of understanding and engaging with the role and culture of dance.