Literature Technology And Magical Thinking 1880 1920

Author : Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139428859

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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920 by Pamela Thurschwell Pdf

In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis. This study offers provocative interpretations of fin-de-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.

Author : Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:848669611

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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920 by Pamela Thurschwell Pdf

Author : Emily Ennis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350196209

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Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880 - 1920 by Emily Ennis Pdf

At the turn of the 20th century, printing and photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading to the birth of mass media and the rise of the amateur photographer. Demonstrating how this development happened symbiotically with great changes in the shape of British literature, Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880-1920 explores this co-evolution, showing that as both writing and photography became tools of mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their professional and personal identities. Focusing on four key authors-Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf-each of which had their own private and professional connections to photographs, this book offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary cultural developments and anxieties. At first establishing the authors' response to developing technologies through their non-fiction, personal correspondences and working drafts, Ennis moves on to examine how their perceptions of photography extend into their major works of fiction: A Laodicean, Dracula, The Secret Agent, The Inheritors and The Voyage Out. Reflecting on the first 'graphic revolution' in a world where text and image are now reproduced digitally and circulated en masse and online, Ennis redirects our attention to when image and text appeared alongside each other for the first time and the crises this sparked for authors: how they would respond to increasingly photographic depictions of everyday life, and in turn, how their writing adapted to a distinctly visual mass media.

Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000561470

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Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 4 by Shane McCorristine Pdf

This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.

Author : Nicola Bown,Carolyn Burdett,Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521810159

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The Victorian Supernatural by Nicola Bown,Carolyn Burdett,Pamela Thurschwell Pdf

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Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869096

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Henry James Today by John Carlos Rowe Pdf

Henry James Today is a collection of seven essays focused on the relevance of Henry James’s work for an understanding of current problems. This volume includes studies of how James and such contemporaries as Mark Twain and the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis have influenced each other and modernist and postmodernist writers, such as Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Franzen, and Philip Roth. These traditional studies of literary influence are complemented by essays on Henry James and visual media (collage, painting, sculpture, architecture) and new media (digital social media and the digital humanities). Recognizing the significant cultural and technological changes since James lived and wrote, the contributors nonetheless focus on the historical and cultural continuities between James’s era and our own. Other contributors focus on innovative practices in James’s cultural era to understand how the modernist avant-garde anticipated social and aesthetic issues that are today central to our lives. The contributors represent a global spectrum of James Studies, and their diverse essays indicate James’s powerful influence on aesthetic and social issues. Brad Evans (Rutgers University), Ashley Barnes (Williams College), Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa), Harold Hellwig (Idaho State University), Geraldo Cáffaro (Universidade Federale de Minais Gerais, Brazil), John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California), and Shawna Ross (Arizona State University) represent an exemplary cross-section of those scholars working on Henry James today.

Author : J. Wild
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230514669

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The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture, 1880-1939 by J. Wild Pdf

This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1473 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780080930749

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Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences by Anonim Pdf

The Handbook Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences addresses numerous issues in the emerging field of the philosophy of those sciences that are involved in the technological process of designing, developing and making of new technical artifacts and systems. These issues include the nature of design, of technological knowledge, and of technical artifacts, as well as the toolbox of engineers. Most of these have thus far not been analyzed in general philosophy of science, which has traditionally but inadequately regarded technology as mere applied science and focused on physics, biology, mathematics and the social sciences. First comprehensive philosophical handbook on technology and the engineering sciences Unparalleled in scope including explorative articles In depth discussion of technical artifacts and their ontology Provides extensive analysis of the nature of engineering design Focuses in detail on the role of models in technology

Author : Allan Kilner-Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350255326

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The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature by Allan Kilner-Johnson Pdf

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult. Although the early decades of the twentieth century-the era of cocktails, motorcars, bobbed hair, and war-are often described as a period of newness and innovation, many writers of the time found inspiration and visionary brilliance by turning to the mysterious occult past. This book's principle intervention is to reimagine the contours and boundaries of literary modernism by welcoming into the conversation a number of significant female writers and writers in languages other than English who are often still relegated to the fringes of modernist studies. Well-remembered poets and novelists such as Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Aleister Crowley were tied to occult beliefs, and this book sets these leading figures alongside less well-remembered but equally splendid modernists including Paul Brunton, Mary Butts, Alexandra David-Neel, Florence Farr, Dion Fortune, Hermann Hesse, and Rudolf Steiner. From the little magazines where occultism and Fabianism were comfortable companions, to consulting rooms of psychoanalysts where archetypes were revealed to be both mystical and mundane, to the forbidden mountain trails that led to formidable spiritual teachers, the conditions of modernism were invariably those conditions which inspired a return to the occult traditions that many thinkers believed had long evaporated. Indeed, in many ways these traditions were the making of the modern world. By uncovering hidden hopes and anxieties that faced a newly modern Western Europe, this book demonstrates how literary modernists understood occultism as a universal form of cultural expression which has inspired creative exuberance since the dawn of civilisation.

Author : Lena Wanggren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474416276

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Gender, Technology and the New Woman by Lena Wanggren Pdf

This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siecle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the 'crisis in gender' or 'sexual anarchy' of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. As this monograph demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in this technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

Author : Flora Lysen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501378744

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Brainmedia by Flora Lysen Pdf

Will we ever be able to see the brain at work? Could it be possible to observe thinking and feeling as if watching a live broadcast from within the human head? Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies: from exhibitions of giant illuminated brain models and staged projections of brainwave recordings to live televised brain broadcasts, brains hooked up to computers and experiments with “brain-to-brain” synchronization. Drawing on archival material, Brainmedia outlines a new history of “live brains,” arguing that practices of-and ideas about-mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. By combining accounts of scientists examining brains in laboratories with examples of public demonstrations and exhibitions of brain research, Brainmedia casts new light on popularization practices, placing them at the heart of scientific work.

Author : Alex Goody
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349959617

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Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies by Alex Goody Pdf

Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city of New York, the book argues that the poetry of modernist women that engages with, examines or critiques the new leisure technologies of their era is fundamentally changed by the encounter with that technology. The chapters in the book focus on shopping, advertising, dance, film, radio and phonography, on city spaces such as Coney Island, Greenwich Village and Harlem, and on poetry that embraces the linguistic and formal innovations of modernism whilst paying close attention to the embodied politics of gender. The technologized city, and the leisure cultures and media forms emerging from it, enabled modernist women writers to re-imagine forms of lyric embodiment, inspired by the impact of technology on modern ideas of selfhood and subjectivity.

Author : Hilary Grimes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317026266

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The Late Victorian Gothic by Hilary Grimes Pdf

Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Author : Andrew McCann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107064423

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Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain by Andrew McCann Pdf

A study of the representation of the occult in late-Victorian popular fiction, exploring different perceptions of authorship and creativity.

Author : G. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230288072

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Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction by G. Johnson Pdf

Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction. Psychoanalysis has received undue attention over a more typical British eclecticism, embraced by now-forgotten figures including Frederic Myers and William McDougall. This project focuses on the Edwardian novelists most fully engaged by dynamic psychology, May Sinclair, and J.D. Beresford, but also reconsiders Arnold Bennett and D.H. Lawrence. The book concludes by demonstrating Woolf's subtle assimilation of pre-Freudian discourse.