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Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Paperback)
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Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Paperback)
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Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a
difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this
has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference.
The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes
literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way
human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on,
arguing that such scenes dramatise the modernisation of
subjectivity. Daly begins with Victorian railway melodramas in
which an individual is rescued from the path of the train just in
time, and ends with J. G. Ballard's novel Crash in which people
seek out such collisions. Daly argues that these collisions
dramatise the relationship between the individual and the
industrial society, and suggests that the pleasures of fictional
suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday
life. This book will be of interest to scholars of modernism,
literature and film.
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