Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction - Minds, Bodies, Machines; D.Coleman & H.Fraser Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement, Transport, Affect; P.Otto Air-Looms and Influencing Machines; S.Connor Maternity, Madness and Mechanization: The Ghastly Automaton in James Hogg's The Three Perils of Woman; K.Inglis Clockwork Automata, Artificial Intelligence, and Why the Body of the Author Matters; P.Crosthwaite Metaphors and Analogies of Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century Science and Fiction: George Eliot, Henry James and George Meredith; M.Banfield Alfred Wallace's Conversion: Plebian Radicalism and the Spiritual Evolution of the Mind; I.McCalman Molecular Machines and Lascivious Bodies: James Clerk Maxwell's Verse-Born Attacks on Tyndallic Reductionism; D.Brown Writing the 'Great Proteus of Disease': Influenza, Informatics, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth Century; J.Mussell Linguistic Trepanation: Brain Damage, Penetrative Seeing, and a Revolution of the Word; L.Salisbury Coda Notes Index