Romantic cyborgs : authorship and technology in the American Renaissance / Klaus Benesch.

Author/creator Benesch, Klaus, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2002.
Descriptionx, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Technology in literature.
Literature and technology--United States. --History. --19th century.
Romanticism--United States.

Contents From Franklin to Whitman: contested ideologies of authorship and technology -- Machine art revisited: Hawthorne's artist(s) of the beautiful -- Do machines make history? Edgar Allan Poe and the technologizing of discourse -- Figuring modern authorship: Melville's narratives of technological encroachment -- The author in pain: technology and fragmentation in Rebecca Harding Davis and Walt Whitman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-237) and index.
LCCN 2001003138
ISBN1558493239 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS217.T43 B46 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold