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

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Introduction: Fictionality and Artificial Life

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

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Birthing Body;Pygmalion's Statue;Maternal Imagination;Motherless Children;Frankenstein's Creature;Tomorrow's Eve;Young Man;Animated Statue;Wellcome Collection;Western Dime;Jacques De Vaucanson;Wet Nurse;Prometheus;Chattel;Ludwig Achim Von Arnim;Male Midwives;Maternal Impressions;Automaton Manufacturer;Benito Cereno;Follow;Birthing Room;Ectogenesis;Golem Legend;Wandering;Mary Wollstonecraft