Wendy C. Nielsen

Motherless Creations (eBook, PDF)

Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion's statue, Frankenstein's creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000582369
• Artikelnr.: 63956023

Autorenporträt

Wendy C. Nielsen is Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University, USA. She has published the book Women Warriors in Romantic Drama and scholarly essays on world literature, Romantic-era automata, theater, the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Olympe de Gouges, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Corday, and Boadicea.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Fictionality and Artificial Life
Part One, The Rationale for Creating Life without Mothers, 1650-1800
Chapter 1, Fables about the Birthing Body in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2, Automaton: The Analogy of 'Man a Machine' in Descartes and
Obstetrics
Chapter 3, Pygmalion as Creator of Artificial Life
Part Two, Motherless Children in Literature of the Romantic Era, 1800-1832
Chapter 4, Homunculus and the Search for Immortality in Goethe's Faust
Chapter 5, Olympia and the Romance Scam in Hoffmann's The Sandman
Chapter 6, The Creature, his Companion, and the Singularity in Shelley's
Frankenstein
Chapter 7, The Golem: A Reflection on the Purpose of Artificial Life
Part Three, Making Artificial Slaves in French and American Literature,
1850-1890
Chapter 8, The Sex Bot Hadaly in Villiers's Tomorrow's Eve
Chapter 9, Constructing Identity through the "Iron Slave" in Melville's
The Bell-Tower
Chapter 10, White Supremacy in Ellis's The Steam Man
Conclusion
Bibliography
Illustrations