UNSPECIFIED (2024) Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century. [Book, Journal, Proceedings Edited]
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The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata – both human and mechanical – in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency.
| Item Type: | Book, Journal, Proceedings Edited |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Divisions: | School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE) |
| Depositing User: | Thomas Vranken |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2025 01:20 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2025 01:20 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14614 |
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