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Bodies/Machines
Edited by
Iwan Rhys Morus
BERG
Oxford • New York
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Iwan Rhys Morus
2 'A Great and Difficult Thing': Understanding and Explaining
the Human Machine in Restoration England
Michael Hawkins
3 England and the Machinery of Reason, 1780 to 1830
William J. Ashworth
4 The Governor and the Telegraph: Mental Management in British
Natural Philosophy
Elizabeth Green Musselman
5 A Grand and Universal Panacea: Death, Resurrection and the
Electric Chair
Iwan Rhys Morus
6 'Instruments to Lay Hold of Spirits': Technologizing the Bodies
of Victorian Spiritualism
Richard Noakes
7 Spot-watching, Bodily Postures and the 'Practised Eye':
the Material Practice of Instrument Reading in late Victorian
Electrical Life
Graeme Gooday
Contents
8 Bodies, Machines and Noise 197
Jon Agar
Select Bibliography 221
Index 247
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