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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

Edited by
Suzy Anger  and
Thomas Vranken
Suzy Anger
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Thomas Vranken
Affiliation:
University of the South Pacific

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Victorian Automata
Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Contributors

  3. Introduction: The Victorian Automata/Automatism Schema

    Suzy Anger

  4. An Afterthought on Victorian Automata as Afterthought (and Signifier)

    Thomas Vranken

  5. Part IMechanical Automata

    1. 1The Mimetic Faculty at Work: The Golden Age of Automata

      Kara Reilly

    2. 2Black Steam: Patents, Portals, and the Counterhistories of the Victorian Android

      Edward Jones-Imhotep and Alexander Offord

    3. 3A Short History of Human–Automata Interaction

      Simone Natale

  6. Part IIAutomatism

    1. 4The Dialectic of Automatism and Free Will

      Roger Smith

    2. 5The Poetry of Conscious Automatism

      Suzy Anger

    3. 6“No Purpose, Heart or Mind or Will”: James Thomson (B.V.) and Psychological Automatism

      Tyson Stolte

    4. 7Creative Trollope

      Linda Austin

    5. 8Darwin and Agency – Intention or Automatism?

      George Levine

  7. Part IIILiterary Genre and Popular Fiction

    1. 9The Automaton Detective: Victorian Reverberations

      Thomas Vranken and Stephen Knight

    2. 10“A Doll, a Dummy, a Nothing!” The Criminal Mesmerist, His Automaton-Subject, and Debates on Criminal Responsibility in Richard Marsh

      Shuhita Bhattacharjee

    3. 11The Invasion of the White Mind: Race, Automatism, and Mental Hierarchy in the Late Nineteenth Century

      Aren Roukema

  8. Part IVInteractions

    1. 12Sublime Puppets versus Uncanny Automata: Artificial Beings in Nineteenth-Century Literature

      Minsoo Kang

    2. 13The Strange Career of Topsy: The Problem of Automata in the Age of Slave Emancipation

      Chris Dingwall

    3. 14George Eliot among the Machines

      Sally Shuttleworth

    4. 15A Disembodied Voice, Yet the Voice of a Human Soul: Decadent Automacy in L’Ève future

      Richard Menke

  9. Index

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  • Contents
  • Edited by Suzy Anger, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Thomas Vranken, University of the South Pacific
  • Book: Victorian Automata
  • Online publication: 15 March 2024
Available formats
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