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The Collection (Paperback)
Nina Leger; Translated by Laura Francis
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WINNER OF THE PRIX ANAIS NIN Jeanne moves from room to room. In the
anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris - Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince
Albert, Hotel Prince Monceau, Hotel Coypel, Hotel Nord &
Champagne - she undresses man after man, forgetting faces, names,
pleasures, thoughts, and all physical attributes but one. In her
head, a palace of memories is being built, image by new image,
lover by new lover. There is no pathologizing Jeanne; she resists
it. There is no way to impose a story on Jeanne; she escapes it.
There is no pitying Jeanne, no lusting after Jeanne, no uncovering
the secret to Jeanne; she won't allow it. Jeanne moves from room to
room.
Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for
granted, but nonetheless were—as we are today—both attracted to
and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep
history of such ambivalence, examining technology’s influence on
Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of
literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations
of technology. Offering a counterbalance to the abundance of
studies on literature and science in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Britain, this volume’s focus encompasses
approaches to literary history that help us understand technologies
like the steam engine and the telegraph along with representations
of technology in literature such as the “political machine.”
Contributors ultimately show how literature across genres provided
important sites for Enlightenment readers to recognize themselves
as “chimeras”—“hybrids of machine and organism”—and to
explore the modern self as “a creature of social reality as well
as a creature of fiction.”
Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for
granted, but nonetheless were—as we are today—both attracted to
and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep
history of such ambivalence, examining technology’s influence on
Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of
literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations
of technology. Offering a counterbalance to the abundance of
studies on literature and science in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Britain, this volume’s focus encompasses
approaches to literary history that help us understand technologies
like the steam engine and the telegraph along with representations
of technology in literature such as the “political machine.”
Contributors ultimately show how literature across genres provided
important sites for Enlightenment readers to recognize themselves
as “chimeras”—“hybrids of machine and organism”—and to
explore the modern self as “a creature of social reality as well
as a creature of fiction.”
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