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Life Among The Machines: James Joyce's Ulysses And Early Twentieth-Century Technology, Patrick Casey
Life Among The Machines: James Joyce's Ulysses And Early Twentieth-Century Technology, Patrick Casey
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This project investigates the cultural impact of the various technological innovations that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century, and how modernism contends with the increasing presence of technology in everyday life. It focuses on the work of James Joyce, whose attitudes toward technology differ significantly from many of his contemporaries, and on his novel Ulysses, which takes place in metropolitan Dublin and features many of the everyday technologies of the early twentieth century.
The first chapter examines the relationship between technology and the vitalist theories of Henri Bergson and Hans Driesch, arguing that the popularity these theories …
Graphomania: Composing Subjects In Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction And Technology, Gregory D. Brophy
Graphomania: Composing Subjects In Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction And Technology, Gregory D. Brophy
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This dissertation explores the varied phenomena of “automatic writing” in Victorian Gothic fiction, reading the genre’s fascination with the irrepressible signifying practices of the body in light of the medical, criminological and scientific discourses that underwrite the “scriptural economy” of the late nineteenth century with their own arsenal of automatic writing machines. I have titled the project "Graphomania," and I consider the term a keyword of late-Victorian culture—one that names a distinctly Victorian pathology of compulsive writing, but that alludes also to the widespread epistemic hope that writing could render objectively the internal and subjective experiences of individuals.
In a …