Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850
Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850

Author: Tom Mole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-05-14

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0521884772

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how our modern idea of celebrity was created in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930
Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

Author: D. Coleman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0230307531

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It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences.