"Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--
"Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--
List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: the Victorian automata/automatism schema Suzy Anger; An afterthought on Victorian automata as afterthought (and signifier) Thomas Vranken; Part I. Mechanical Automata: 1. The mimetic faculty at work: the golden age of automata Kara Reilly; 2. Black steam: patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the Victorian android Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord; 3. A short history of human-automata interaction Simone Natale; Part II. Automatism: 4. The dialectic of automatism and free will Roger Smith; 5. The poetry of conscious automatism Suzy Anger; 6. 'No purpose, heart or mind or will': James Thomson (B. V.) and psychological automatism Tyson Stolte; 7. Creative trollope Linda Austin; 8. Darwin and agency - intention or automatism? George Levine; Part III. Literary Genre and Popular Fiction: 9. The automaton detective: Victorian reverberations Thomas Vranken and Stephen Knight; 10. 'A doll, a dummy, a nothing!': the criminal mesmerist, his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard Marsh Shuhita Bhattacharjee; 11. The invasion of the white mind: race, automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century Aren Roukema; Part IV. Interactions: 12. Sublime puppets versus uncanny automata: artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature Minsoo Kang; 13. The strange career of topsy: the problem of automata in the age of slave emancipation Chris Dingwall; 14. George Eliot among the machines Sally Shuttleworth; 15. A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul: decadent automacy in L'Ève Future Richard Menke; Index.
List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: the Victorian automata/automatism schema Suzy Anger; An afterthought on Victorian automata as afterthought (and signifier) Thomas Vranken; Part I. Mechanical Automata: 1. The mimetic faculty at work: the golden age of automata Kara Reilly; 2. Black steam: patents, portals, and the counter-histories of the Victorian android Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord; 3. A short history of human-automata interaction Simone Natale; Part II. Automatism: 4. The dialectic of automatism and free will Roger Smith; 5. The poetry of conscious automatism Suzy Anger; 6. 'No purpose, heart or mind or will': James Thomson (B. V.) and psychological automatism Tyson Stolte; 7. Creative trollope Linda Austin; 8. Darwin and agency - intention or automatism? George Levine; Part III. Literary Genre and Popular Fiction: 9. The automaton detective: Victorian reverberations Thomas Vranken and Stephen Knight; 10. 'A doll, a dummy, a nothing!': the criminal mesmerist, his automaton-subject, and debates on criminal responsibility in Richard Marsh Shuhita Bhattacharjee; 11. The invasion of the white mind: race, automatism, and mental hierarchy in the late-nineteenth century Aren Roukema; Part IV. Interactions: 12. Sublime puppets versus uncanny automata: artificial beings in nineteenth-century literature Minsoo Kang; 13. The strange career of topsy: the problem of automata in the age of slave emancipation Chris Dingwall; 14. George Eliot among the machines Sally Shuttleworth; 15. A disembodied voice, yet the voice of a human soul: decadent automacy in L'Ève Future Richard Menke; Index.
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