Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character

by Megan Ward

Book Overview

Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character offers a new theory of realist character through character's unexpected afterlife: the intelligent machine. The book contends that mid-twentieth-century versions of artificial intelligence (AI) offer a theory of verisimilitude omitted by traditional histories of character, which often focus on the development of interiority and the shift from "flat" to "round" characters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814213758
• ISBN13: 9780814213759
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"