| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Two Panopticons -- Mechanical Form -- 1: Narratives and Machines in Enlightenment Britain -- The Mechanics of Narati ve -- The Invention of the British Novel -- The Science of the Novel -- Natural Histories of the Pasions -- 2: Libertines and Machines in Love in Excess -- Mechanical Philosophy and Its Discontents: From Hobes to Clarke -- Libertine Machines |
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Hobes at the Tea TableThinking Machines in Love in Excess -- 3: Realismâ#x80;#x99;s Ghosts: Science and Spectacle in Tom Jones -- Philosophers and Machines: Freke, Martin, Desaguliers -- Authors and Machines: Pope, Pantomime, and the Deus ex Machina -- Tom Jones: Experimental Machine -- Spectacular Realism -- 4: The Speed of Tristram Shandy -- Digresion, Narative Speed, and the Eightenth-Century Culture of Mobility -- Tristramâ#x80;#x99;s Post-Chaise: Speed, Pleasure, Alienation -- Emile on Foot: Rouseau and the Paradox of Technological Modernity |
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Broken Machines and Sentimental Remediations5: The Machine in the Ghost: Sounds and Sensibility in The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Ethereal Technologies: The Aeolian Harp and the Glass Harmonica -- Gothic Soundscapes: Walpole, Burke, Radclife -- Gothic Hygiene: Ethereal Vibrations in The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Gothic Pathologies -- Coda: The Novel and the Industrial Revolution -- Industry and Idlenes -- Engines of Truth and Reform -- Notes -- Notes to Introduction -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 |
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Notes to Chapter 5Notes to Coda -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Novel Machines explores the ideas of technological modernity and the machinery of narrative fiction in the eighteenth-century British novel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 15, 2017) |
| Subject |
Machinery -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
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Machinery
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191834394 |
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0191834394 |
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9780192510808 |
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0192510800 |
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