Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American RenaissanceLiterary critics have long regarded the rejection of technology as a distinguishing feature of American Romanticism. Yet as Klaus Benesch shows in this insightful study, the attitude of antebellum writers toward the advent of the machine age was far more complicated than often supposed. Although fraught with tension, the relationship between professional authorship and evolving technology reflected a pattern of adjustment rather than opposition, as writers sought to redefine their place within a culture that increasingly valued the engineer and the scientist. |
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Contents
From Franklin to Whitman | 35 |
Machine Art Revisited | 63 |
Do Machines Make History? | 97 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance |
| Author | Klaus Benesch |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 1558493239, 9781558493230 |
| Length | 246 pages |
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