{"product_id":"the-rail-the-body-and-the-pen-9781476683058","title":"The Rail the Body and the Pen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous human combustion and mesmerism (hyptnotism) in his plots. Mary Shelley created the immortal Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature. H.G. Wells imagined the \u003ci\u003eTime Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and invaders from Mars. Percy Shelley was as infamous at Oxford for his smelly experiments and for his atheism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book of essays explores representations of technology in the work of various nineteenth-century British authors. Essays cluster around two important areas of innovation-- transportation and medicine. Each essay contributor accessibly maps out the places where art and science meet, detailing how these authors both affected and reflected the technological revolutions of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eBrian Cowlishaw\t1\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Trains and Travel\u003cbr\u003eTrains and Brains: Splitting the Self in Sensation Fiction\u003cbr\u003eRichard Leahy\t6\u003cbr\u003eA Technological View of Nineteenth Century Imperialism and Globalization in Science Fiction and Global History\u003cbr\u003eSobia Kiran\t23\u003cbr\u003eThe Shock of Modernity: Traveling the Railways and Reading the First Female Detective(s)\u003cbr\u003eChandrama Basu\t46\u003cbr\u003eStrains, Gains and Remains: Railway Development and Victorian Women in Middlemarch, North and South and Tess of the D'Urbervilles\u003cbr\u003eZoë Perot\t69\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Medicine and the Body\u003cbr\u003eFactory Time: Mechanization and Monotony in the Victorian Imagination\u003cbr\u003eSusan Johnston\t92\u003cbr\u003eH.G. Wells and the Machinery of the Brain: Cognition Beyond Skull and Skin in The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds\u003cbr\u003eO.R. Teregulova\t109\u003cbr\u003eThe Mechanics of Being Human: Technology and Posthumanism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein\u003cbr\u003eUrshela Wiggins Atkins\t124\u003cbr\u003eReanimation Through ­Electro-Stimulation: Frankenstein and Electrical Science\u003cbr\u003eVittoria S. Rubino\t135\u003cbr\u003eLubing the Speculum: Carmilla and the Gradual Introduction of Diagnostic Technology to Victorian Medicine\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Hornsey\t156\u003cbr\u003e\"Stiff Limbed\" and \"Doubly Souled\": The Queer Anatomy of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's ­Jest-Book\u003cbr\u003eShelley Rees\t174\u003cbr\u003e\"The Intolerable Kodak\": Ouida on Victorian Celebrity Culture\u003cbr\u003eLorraine Dubuisson\t188\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t205\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t207","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040483541335,"sku":"9781476683058","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476683058.jpg?v=1750946894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rail-the-body-and-the-pen-9781476683058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}