Author: R. Yorke Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Railway Appliances in the Nineteenth Century Or the Rail, Steam, and Electricity
Author: R. Yorke Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology
Author: Jason David Hall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319535021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices, pedagogical procedures, scientific experiments, and technological innovations. By offering an exploded definition of meter—one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion—this book explicates the conceptual and, at times, material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture. The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing; a deeply influential, though rarely credited, system of metrical manufacture; verse produced by a Victorian automaton; the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them; and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and for all.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319535021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices, pedagogical procedures, scientific experiments, and technological innovations. By offering an exploded definition of meter—one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion—this book explicates the conceptual and, at times, material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture. The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing; a deeply influential, though rarely credited, system of metrical manufacture; verse produced by a Victorian automaton; the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them; and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and for all.
The Railway Journey
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
The hill side, illustrations of some of the simplest terms used in logic, by the author of 'Mary Powell'.
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The History of a Man
Author: George Gilfillan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Tasso and Leonora, the commentaries of ser Pantaleone degli Gambacorti, by the author of 'Mary Powell'.
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Jack and the Tanner of Wymondham
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Jack and the tanner of Wymondham, by the author of 'Mary Powell'.
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Old German theology, a hundred years before the Reformation, tr. by mrs. Malcolm
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A sabbath at home [by A. Manning].
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description