Novel machines : technology and narrative form in enlightenment Britain /
Novel Machines explores the ideas of technological modernity and the machinery of narrative fiction in the eighteenth-century British novel.
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Two Panopticons
- Mechanical Form
- 1: Narratives and Machines in Enlightenment Britain
- The Mechanics of Narati ve
- The Invention of the British Novel
- The Science of the Novel
- Natural Histories of the Pasions
- 2: Libertines and Machines in Love in Excess
- Mechanical Philosophy and Its Discontents: From Hobes to Clarke
- Libertine Machines
- Hobes at the Tea TableThinking Machines in Love in Excess
- 3: Realismâ#x80;#x99;s Ghosts: Science and Spectacle in Tom Jones
- Philosophers and Machines: Freke, Martin, Desaguliers
- Authors and Machines: Pope, Pantomime, and the Deus ex Machina
- Tom Jones: Experimental Machine
- Spectacular Realism
- 4: The Speed of Tristram Shandy
- Digresion, Narative Speed, and the Eightenth-Century Culture of Mobility
- Tristramâ#x80;#x99;s Post-Chaise: Speed, Pleasure, Alienation
- Emile on Foot: Rouseau and the Paradox of Technological Modernity
- Broken Machines and Sentimental Remediations5: The Machine in the Ghost: Sounds and Sensibility in The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Ethereal Technologies: The Aeolian Harp and the Glass Harmonica
- Gothic Soundscapes: Walpole, Burke, Radclife
- Gothic Hygiene: Ethereal Vibrations in The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Gothic Pathologies
- Coda: The Novel and the Industrial Revolution
- Industry and Idlenes
- Engines of Truth and Reform
- Notes
- Notes to Introduction
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Notes to Chapter 5Notes to Coda
- Bibliography