Motherless creations fictions of artificial life, 1650-1890 / Wendy C. Nielsen.
| Author/creator | Nielsen, Wendy C. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in speculative fiction |
| Contents | Part One. The Rationale for Creating Life without Mothers, 1650-1800 -- Fables about the Birthing Body in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Automaton: The Analogy of 'Man a Machine' in Descartes and Obstetrics -- Pygmalion as Creator of Artificial Life -- Part Two. Motherless Children in Literature of the Romantic Era, 1800-1832 -- Homunculus and the Search for Immortality in Goethe's Faust -- Olympia and the Romance Scam in Hoffmann's The Sandman -- The Creature, his Companion, and the Singularity in Shelley's Frankenstein -- The Golem: A Reflection on the Purpose of Artificial Life -- Part Three. Making Artificial Slaves in French and American Literature, 1850-1890 -- The Sex Bot Hadaly in Villiers's Tomorrow's Eve -- Constructing Identity through the "Iron Slave" in Melville's The Bell-Tower -- White Supremacy in Ellis's The Steam Man. |
| Abstract | "This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion's statue, Frankenstein's creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021056838 |
| ISBN | 9781032231679 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032266398 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |