| Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 Contributor(s): Daly, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521123844 ISBN-13: 9780521123846 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 9" (0.57 lbs) 172 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |