Literature, technology, and modernity, 1860-2000
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Author
Publication
2004 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
40,250 words, Guess
Page Count
161 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3688823M
- ISBN-100521833922
- OCLC Control Number52838639
- Library of Congress Control Number2003055728
- LibraryThing8235538
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- Goodreads2353742
Classifications
- DDC820.9/356
- LCCPR468.T4 D35 2004
Description
"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 dramatize the modernization 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 dramatize the relationship between the individual and modern 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 Victorian literature, modernism and film."--Jacket.
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