Motherless creations : fictions of artificial life, 1650-1890 /: fictions of artificial life, 1650-1890. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Wendy C. Nielsen.
• Authors: Nielsen, Wendy C
• Contents: 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 Bibliography Illustrations
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.93384; Artificial life in literature; Reproduction in literature; Mothers in literature; English literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism; French literature -- History and criticism; German literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000582413; 9781000582369; 9781003276104
• Related ISBNs: 9781032231679
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