Reading machines in the modernist transatlantic : avant-gardes, technology and the everyday / Eric B. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Eric B., author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Dazzling Technologies: Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War

2. Re-Reading the Machine Age: The ‘Audacious Modernity’ of the Techno-Bathetic Avant-Gardes

3. Excavating the ‘Readies’: The Revolution of the Word, Revised

4. Ghosts in the Machine Age: Rose and Bob Brown’s Reading Machines and the Socio-Technics of Social Change

5. ‘Our Technology Was Vernacular’: Radical Technicities in African American Experimental Writing

6. Afterword: The Robot Does (Not) Exist

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474490856

1474490859

9781474441513

1474441513

OCLC:

1312726223