Literature, technology, and modernity, 1860-2000

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Literature, technology, and modernity, 1860-2000

Nicholas Daly

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Originally published: 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-156) and index

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内容説明

Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatise the modernisation of subjectivity. Daly begins with Victorian railway melodramas in which an individual is rescued from the path of the train just in time, and ends with J. G. Ballard's novel Crash in which people seek out such collisions. Daly argues that these collisions dramatise the relationship between the individual and the industrial society, and suggests that the pleasures of fictional suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday life. This book will be of interest to scholars of modernism, literature and film.

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Sensation drama, the railway and modernity
  • 2. Sensation fiction and the modernisation of the senses
  • 3. The Boerograph
  • 4. 'It': the last machine and the invention of sex appeal
  • 5. Crash: flesh, steel, and celluloid.

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