Motherless Creations
Motherless Creations
Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890
Nielsen, Wendy C.
Taylor & Francis Ltd
05/2022
248
Dura
Inglês
9781032231679
15 a 20 dias
471
Part One, The Rationale for Creating Life without Mothers, 1650-1800
Chapter 1, Fables about the Birthing Body in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2, Automaton: The Analogy of 'Man a Machine' in Descartes and Obstetrics
Chapter 3, Pygmalion as Creator of Artificial Life
Part Two, Motherless Children in Literature of the Romantic Era, 1800-1832
Chapter 4, Homunculus and the Search for Immortality in Goethe's Faust
Chapter 5, Olympia and the Romance Scam in Hoffmann's The Sandman
Chapter 6, The Creature, his Companion, and the Singularity in Shelley's Frankenstein
Chapter 7, The Golem: A Reflection on the Purpose of Artificial Life
Part Three, Making Artificial Slaves in French and American Literature, 1850-1890
Chapter 8, The Sex Bot Hadaly in Villiers's Tomorrow's Eve
Chapter 9, Constructing Identity through the "Iron Slave" in Melville's The Bell-Tower
Chapter 10, White Supremacy in Ellis's The Steam Man
Conclusion
Bibliography
Illustrations
Part One, The Rationale for Creating Life without Mothers, 1650-1800
Chapter 1, Fables about the Birthing Body in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2, Automaton: The Analogy of 'Man a Machine' in Descartes and Obstetrics
Chapter 3, Pygmalion as Creator of Artificial Life
Part Two, Motherless Children in Literature of the Romantic Era, 1800-1832
Chapter 4, Homunculus and the Search for Immortality in Goethe's Faust
Chapter 5, Olympia and the Romance Scam in Hoffmann's The Sandman
Chapter 6, The Creature, his Companion, and the Singularity in Shelley's Frankenstein
Chapter 7, The Golem: A Reflection on the Purpose of Artificial Life
Part Three, Making Artificial Slaves in French and American Literature, 1850-1890
Chapter 8, The Sex Bot Hadaly in Villiers's Tomorrow's Eve
Chapter 9, Constructing Identity through the "Iron Slave" in Melville's The Bell-Tower
Chapter 10, White Supremacy in Ellis's The Steam Man
Conclusion
Bibliography
Illustrations