A genealogy of cyborgothic : aesthetics and ethics in the age of posthumanism / Dongshin Yi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yi, Dongshin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Ethics in literature.

Literature and morals.

Future, The, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and ethical practice that can enable a posthumanist relationship between human and non-human beings as he examines novels like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Arrowsmith alongside philosophical and critical works by Edmund Burke, William James, and others.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beyond "The Ruin of Representation"; 1 A Beautiful Attendant: The Rise of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful; 2 A Beautiful Monster: The Fall of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful; 3 Van Helsing's Dilemma: Science and Mill's Utilitarianism; 4 A Humanistic Science in a Pragmatic Society: Re-Reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith; 5 The Birth of Cyborgothic: Mothering the Cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-96250-7

1-351-96251-5

1-315-26392-0

1-282-52475-5

9786612524752

0-7546-9908-0

9781315263922

OCLC:

651599403