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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drury, Joseph (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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