Literature Technology and Modernity 1860-2000

Writing For Scholars Of Modernism Literature And Film Nicholas Daly Considers The Way Human/Machine Encounters Have Been Imagined From The 1860S On Arguing That Such Scenes Dramatize The Modernization Of Subjectivity. Although Modernity Assumes That There Is A Difference Between People And Machines A Consequence Of This Belief Has Been A Recurring Fantasy About The Erasure Of That Difference. The Central Scenario In This Fantasy Is The Crash Or Collision Sometimes Literal Sometimes Metaphorical.