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The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Digital Culture Books)
Tamara Siroone Ketabgian
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Description for The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Digital Culture Books)
Paperback. Series: Digitalculturebook. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that let off steam or feel under pressure. The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely human and affecting than the nonhuman. Tamara Ketabgian explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. Treating British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, this study examines forms of feeling and community that combine the ... Read more
Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that let off steam or feel under pressure. The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely human and affecting than the nonhuman. Tamara Ketabgian explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. Treating British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, this study examines forms of feeling and community that combine the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Digitalculturebook
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472051403
SKU
V9780472051403
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About Tamara Siroone Ketabgian
Tamara Ketabgian is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Beloit College.
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