Automatism And Creative Acts In The Age Of New Psychology

Author : Linda M. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842855X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology written by Linda M. Austin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the scientific question, 'Are we automata?', was addressed in late nineteenth-century literature and the arts.

Author : Linda M. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108594042
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology written by Linda M. Austin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and automata. These questions arose from findings in the 'new psychology', physiological research that diminished the primacy of mind and viewed human action as neurological and systemic. Concentrating on British and continental culture from 1870 to 1911, this unique study explores ways in which the idea of automatism helped shape ballet, art photography, literature, and professional writing. Drawing on documents including novels and travel essays, Linda M. Austin finds a link between efforts to establish standards of artistic practice and challenges to the idea of human exceptionalism. Austin presents each artistic discipline as an example of the same process: creation that should be intended, but involving actions that evade mental control. This study considers how late nineteenth-century literature and arts tackled the scientific question, 'Are we automata?'

Author : Tyson Stolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192858424
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens and Victorian Psychology written by Tyson Stolte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode, those moments--from free indirect discourse to first-person narration--in which Dickens attempts to represent the inner view of his characters' minds. In the middle of the nineteenth century, introspection remained the central investigative method for dualist psychologies, theories that tied the mind's immortality to its immateriality. Because those psychologies found evidence of the mind's ontological difference from the body in the subjective experience of consciousness, this book argues that the moments of inwardness in Dickens's fiction, in both their form and their content, constitute efforts to resist the encroachment of psycho-physiology by making a case for the mind's transcendence of the body. Yet Dickens and Victorian Psychology also shows the consequences of a material psychology's appropriation of such an inward view--as well as the results of the efforts by psycho-physiologists to redefine the terminology of a mainstream dualism--by tracing the ambiguities and contradictions that find their way into Dickens's representations of the mind. In these ways, this book reveals an overlooked context for Dickens's experiments with narrative point of view and broadens our understanding of the strategies that a material psychology used to assuage the anxieties of those who saw psycho-physiology as a threat to immortality.

Author : Suzy Anger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100911848X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Automata written by Suzy Anger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108844847
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel written by Hosanna Krienke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009296566
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel written by Lauren Gillingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009409956
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science written by Matthew Rowlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.

Author : Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009271806
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel written by Aaron Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Rosalind Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009272012
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Reprint written by Rosalind Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.

Author : Francesca Mackenney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009084089
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birdsong, Speech and Poetry written by Francesca Mackenney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.