The lives of machines : the industrial imaginary in Victorian literature and culture /

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 nothing is more intensely hum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ketabgian, Tamara Siroone, 1969- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Machinery in literature. Machinery > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Technology > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Human parts and prosthetic networks : the Victorian factory and mesmeric forces
Animal machine
"Melancholy mad elephants" : affect and the animal machine in Hard times
Brute appetites : labor and leisure in Mary Barton and early Victorian Manchester
Psychic forces : steam, water, and mechanical perception in The mill on the floss
"A musical steam engine" : sympathy, technique, and industrial commaunity.