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"Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous human combustion and ""mesmerism"" (hyptnotism) in his plots. Mary Shelley created the immortal Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature. H.G. Wells imagined the Time Machine, the Invisible Man, and invaders from Mars. Percy Shelley was as infamous at Oxford for his smelly experiments and for his atheism. This book of essays explores representations of technology in the work of various nineteenth-century British authors. Essays cluster around two important areas of innovation-- transportation and medicine. Each essay contributor accessibly maps out the places where art and science meet, detailing how these authors both affected and reflected the technological revolutions of their time."

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Author:   Brian Cowlishaw
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781476683058

ISBN 10:   1476683050
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   23 August 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction Brian Cowlishaw Part 1: Trains and Travel Trains and Brains: Splitting the Self in Sensation Fiction Richard Leahy A Technological View of Nineteenth Century Imperialism and Globalization in Science Fiction and Global History Sobia Kiran The Shock of Modernity: Traveling the Railways and Reading the First Female Detective(s) Chandrama Basu Strains, Gains and Remains: Railway Development and Victorian Women in Middlemarch, North and South and Tess of the D’Urbervilles Zoë Perot Part 2: Medicine and the Body Factory Time: Mechanization and Monotony in the Victorian Imagination Susan Johnston H.G. Wells and the Machinery of the Brain: Cognition Beyond Skull and Skin in The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds O.R. Teregulova The Mechanics of Being Human: Technology and Posthumanism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Urshela Wiggins Atkins Reanimation Through ­Electro-Stimulation: Frankenstein and Electrical Science Vittoria S. Rubino Lubing the Speculum: Carmilla and the Gradual Introduction of Diagnostic Technology to Victorian Medicine Elizabeth Hornsey “Stiff Limbed” and “Doubly Souled”: The Queer Anatomy of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s Death’s ­Jest-Book Shelley Rees “The Intolerable Kodak”: Ouida on Victorian Celebrity Culture Lorraine Dubuisson About the Contributors Index

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Brian Cowlishaw is a professor of English at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He has published widely on science fiction and fantasy, Victorian literature, and popular culture.

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