Literature, technology, and modernity, 1860-2000

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"The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Daly begins with Victorian railway melodramas in which an individual is rescued from the path of the train just in time, and ends with J.G. Ballard's novel Crash in which people seek out such collisions. Daly argues that these collisions dramatize the relationship between the individual and modern industrial society, and suggests that the pleasures of fictional suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday life. This book will be of interest to scholars of Victorian literature, modernism and film."--Jacket.

subjects: Railroads in literature,  English literature,  Technology in literature,  History and criticism,  Machinery in literature,  Modernism (Literature),  Literature and technology,  Railroad travel in literature,  History,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Littérature anglaise,  Thèmes, motifs,  Technologie dans la littérature,  Littérature et technologie,  Grande Bretagne,  Histoire,  Modernisme (Littérature),  Voyages en train dans la littérature,  Machines dans la littérature,  Chemins de fer dans la littérature

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century