The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

by Thomas George Percival Spear

The Lives of Machines is intelligent, closely argued, and persuasive, and puts forth a contention that will unsettle the current consensus about Victorian attitudes toward the machine.
---Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that let off steam or feel under pressure. The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472071408
• ISBN13: 9780472071401
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: U of M Digt Cult Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"