Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction – Minds, Bodies, Machines

   • Deirdre Coleman, Hilary Fraser

   Pages 1-18

3. Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction

   • Peter Otto

   Pages 19-38

4. Air-Looms and Influencing Machines

   • Steven Connor

   Pages 39-60

5. Maternity, Madness and Mechanization

   • Katherine Inglis

   Pages 61-82

6. Clockwork Automata, Artificial Intelligence and Why the Body of the Author Matters

   • Paul Crosthwaite

   Pages 83-104

7. Metaphors and Analogies of Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction

   • Marie Banfield

   Pages 105-123

8. Alfred Wallace’s Conversion

   • Iain McCalman

   Pages 124-139

9. Molecular Machines and Lascivious Bodies

   • Daniel Brown

   Pages 140-160

10. Writing the ‘Great Proteus of Disease’

    • James Mussell

    Pages 161-178

11. Linguistic Trepanation

    • Laura Salisbury

    Pages 179-208

12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-230

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It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences.

• fiction
• George Eliot
• Henry James
• Imagination
• technology
• British and Irish Literature

'Overall, this is a rewarding and well-assembled collection, required reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine and science as it relates to the history of literature. It suggests a community of scholars - mostly British and Australian, with a few North Americans - committed to an analysis of literature that foregrounds its relation to both embodiment and science.' - Tim Armstrong, New Books on Literature 19

• University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Deirdre Coleman

• University of London, Birkbeck, UK

  Hilary Fraser

MARIE BANFIELD PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DANIEL BROWN Professor in English, University of Western Australia STEVEN CONNOR Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK PAUL CROSTHWAITE Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK KATHERINE INGLIS received her PhD in 2009 from Birkbeck, University of London, UK IAIN MCCALMAN Research Professor, University of Sydney, Australia JAMES MUSSELL Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham, UK PETER OTTO Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia LAURA SALISBURY RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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