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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 May 2018
      14 June 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108552974
      9781108428552
      9781108450409
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552974
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 280 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 282 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (111)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (111)
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    The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and automata. These questions arose from findings in the 'new psychology', physiological research that diminished the primacy of mind and viewed human action as neurological and systemic. Concentrating on British and continental culture from 1870 to 1911, this unique study explores ways in which the idea of automatism helped shape ballet, art photography, literature, and professional writing. Drawing on documents including novels and travel essays, Linda M. Austin finds a link between efforts to establish standards of artistic practice and challenges to the idea of human exceptionalism. Austin presents each artistic discipline as an example of the same process: creation that should be intended, but involving actions that evade mental control. This study considers how late nineteenth-century literature and arts tackled the scientific question, 'Are we automata?'

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