Motherless creations: fictions of artificial life, 1650-1890
"This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion's statue, Frankenstein's creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men"--
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2022
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Beschreibung: | xiv, 247 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
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Contents List of figures Acknowledgments xi xiii Introduction: Fictionality and Artificial Life 1 Gender, Race, and Transhumanism 4 Overview of Chapters 6 Scope and Methodology 8 PARTI The Rationale for Creating Life without Mothers, 1650-1800 1 17 Fables about the Birthing Body in the Long Eighteenth Century 19 The Dangers of Maternal Imagination 20 Beautiful Children in “Callipaedia” 22 The Womb as a Tomb 23 The Homunculus in Embryology and Alchemy 26 Notes 29 2 Automaton: The Analogy of “Man a Machine” in Descartes and Obstetrics Descartes, Automata, and Imagination 34 Man-Midwives and Forceps 37 Smellie’s Birthing Machine 38 Vaucanson’s Automata 41 Notes 45 33
viii 3 Contents Pygmalion as Creator of Artificial Life 50 Deslandes and Materialist Creation S3 Imagination as the Spark of Life 54 Rousseau and Self-Reflexive Creation 57 Appendix: Chronological Bibliography of Pygmalion Texts, 1689-1890 61 Notes 64 PART 2 Motherless Children in Literature of the Romantic Era, 1800-1832 4 69 Homunculus and the Search for Immortality in Goethe’s Faust 73 Artificial Lives and Deaths 75 Homunculus’s Alchemical Creation 76 Artificial Families 78 Goethe’s Two-Sex Model of Creating Life 81 Professors Making Students 83 Notes 86 5 Olympia and the Romance Scam in Hoffmann’s The Sandman Nathanael’s Unreliable Narration 92 The Uncanny 95 The Chess Player, Poe, and Automata 97 The Professor as Swindler 99 Olympia and Klara as Musical Counterpoint 101 Notes 104 6 The Creature, His Companion, and the Singularity in Shelley’s Frankenstein The Effect of Maternal Absence 112 An Education in Solitary Creation 115 Making a Monster 118 The Creature’s Race 122 Miscegenation and the Companion 125 The Incestuous Brides оƒ Frankenstein 127 Notes 131 110 90
Contents 7 The Golem: A Reflection on the Purpose of Artificial Life ix 139 The Golem in Jewish Tradition 141 The Anonymous Creators of Golems in Grimm and Brentano 143 Arnim ’s Isabella of Egypt 146 Golem Bella 148 The Golem in Hoffmann and O’Brien 151 The Golem and Frankenstein 153 Notes 155 PART3 Making Artificial Slaves in French and American Literature, 1850-1890 159 The Sex Bot Hadaly in Villiers’s Tomorrow’s Eve 163 8 Alicia Clary, Evelyn Habal, and Degeneration 166 The Android Hadaly’s Ideal Corpse 167 Hysteria and Sowana 169 Inhuman Women 171 Edison as Engineer of Humans 172 Engineering French Families 174 Notes 177 9 Constructing Identity through the “Iron Slave” in Melville’s The Bell-Tower 180 Identifying the Iron Slave 183 White Identity in Melville 185 The Artist versus the Machine 188 Gender 189 Notes 191 10 White Supremacy in Ellis’s The Steam Man Prequel to the Edisonade 198 The Steam Man as Postbellum Slave 199 Gynecological Experiments 204 The Steam Man as Mediator of Racial Hierarchies 205 Black Performers as Machines 208 Comparative Conclusion 209 Notes 211 196
x Contents 11 Conclusion 215 The Narratological Function of Motherless Creations and Their Makers 216 The Threat and Potential of Motherless Creations 218 Missing Mothers 219 Notes 220 Bibliography Index 221 241
Motherless Creations This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining moth erless creations: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men. These beings typify what is now called artificial life, living systems made through manufactured means. Fantasies about creating life ex-utero were built upon misconcep tions about how life began, sustaining pseudoscientific beliefs about the birthing body. Physicians, inventors, and authors of literature imagined generating life without women to control the process of reproduction and generate perfect progeny. Thus, some speculative fiction before 1890 belongs to the literary genealogy of transhumanism, the belief that tech nology will someday transform some humans into superior, immortal beings. Female motherless creations tend to operate as sexual compan ions. Male ones often emerge as subaltern figures analogous to enslaved beings, illustrating that reproductive rights inform readers’ sense of who counts as human in fictions of artificial life. |
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Contents List of figures Acknowledgments xi xiii Introduction: Fictionality and Artificial Life 1 Gender, Race, and Transhumanism 4 Overview of Chapters 6 Scope and Methodology 8 PARTI The Rationale for Creating Life without Mothers, 1650-1800 1 17 Fables about the Birthing Body in the Long Eighteenth Century 19 The Dangers of Maternal Imagination 20 Beautiful Children in “Callipaedia” 22 The Womb as a Tomb 23 The Homunculus in Embryology and Alchemy 26 Notes 29 2 Automaton: The Analogy of “Man a Machine” in Descartes and Obstetrics Descartes, Automata, and Imagination 34 Man-Midwives and Forceps 37 Smellie’s Birthing Machine 38 Vaucanson’s Automata 41 Notes 45 33
viii 3 Contents Pygmalion as Creator of Artificial Life 50 Deslandes and Materialist Creation S3 Imagination as the Spark of Life 54 Rousseau and Self-Reflexive Creation 57 Appendix: Chronological Bibliography of Pygmalion Texts, 1689-1890 61 Notes 64 PART 2 Motherless Children in Literature of the Romantic Era, 1800-1832 4 69 Homunculus and the Search for Immortality in Goethe’s Faust 73 Artificial Lives and Deaths 75 Homunculus’s Alchemical Creation 76 Artificial Families 78 Goethe’s Two-Sex Model of Creating Life 81 Professors Making Students 83 Notes 86 5 Olympia and the Romance Scam in Hoffmann’s The Sandman Nathanael’s Unreliable Narration 92 The Uncanny 95 The Chess Player, Poe, and Automata 97 The Professor as Swindler 99 Olympia and Klara as Musical Counterpoint 101 Notes 104 6 The Creature, His Companion, and the Singularity in Shelley’s Frankenstein The Effect of Maternal Absence 112 An Education in Solitary Creation 115 Making a Monster 118 The Creature’s Race 122 Miscegenation and the Companion 125 The Incestuous Brides оƒ Frankenstein 127 Notes 131 110 90
Contents 7 The Golem: A Reflection on the Purpose of Artificial Life ix 139 The Golem in Jewish Tradition 141 The Anonymous Creators of Golems in Grimm and Brentano 143 Arnim ’s Isabella of Egypt 146 Golem Bella 148 The Golem in Hoffmann and O’Brien 151 The Golem and Frankenstein 153 Notes 155 PART3 Making Artificial Slaves in French and American Literature, 1850-1890 159 The Sex Bot Hadaly in Villiers’s Tomorrow’s Eve 163 8 Alicia Clary, Evelyn Habal, and Degeneration 166 The Android Hadaly’s Ideal Corpse 167 Hysteria and Sowana 169 Inhuman Women 171 Edison as Engineer of Humans 172 Engineering French Families 174 Notes 177 9 Constructing Identity through the “Iron Slave” in Melville’s The Bell-Tower 180 Identifying the Iron Slave 183 White Identity in Melville 185 The Artist versus the Machine 188 Gender 189 Notes 191 10 White Supremacy in Ellis’s The Steam Man Prequel to the Edisonade 198 The Steam Man as Postbellum Slave 199 Gynecological Experiments 204 The Steam Man as Mediator of Racial Hierarchies 205 Black Performers as Machines 208 Comparative Conclusion 209 Notes 211 196
x Contents 11 Conclusion 215 The Narratological Function of Motherless Creations and Their Makers 216 The Threat and Potential of Motherless Creations 218 Missing Mothers 219 Notes 220 Bibliography Index 221 241
Motherless Creations This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining moth erless creations: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men. These beings typify what is now called artificial life, living systems made through manufactured means. Fantasies about creating life ex-utero were built upon misconcep tions about how life began, sustaining pseudoscientific beliefs about the birthing body. Physicians, inventors, and authors of literature imagined generating life without women to control the process of reproduction and generate perfect progeny. Thus, some speculative fiction before 1890 belongs to the literary genealogy of transhumanism, the belief that tech nology will someday transform some humans into superior, immortal beings. Female motherless creations tend to operate as sexual compan ions. Male ones often emerge as subaltern figures analogous to enslaved beings, illustrating that reproductive rights inform readers’ sense of who counts as human in fictions of artificial life. |
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