The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

• Yazar: Tamara Ketabgian (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: University of Michigan Press 2011
• Konular: Technology > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century; Machinery in literature; Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 19th century; Machinery > Great Britain > History > 19th century; English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 nothi...