Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860 2000

By Nicholas Daly

Book Overview

Writing for scholars of modernism, literature, and film, Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Although modernity assumes that there is a difference between people and machines, a consequence of this belief has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, or collision, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521123844
• ISBN13: 9780521123846
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"