The Rail, the Body and the Pen

Essays on Travel, Medicine and Technology in 19th Century British Literature

Buch | Softcover

217 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8305-8 (ISBN)

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Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. 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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-8305-0 / 1476683050
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8305-8 / 9781476683058
Zustand	Neuware