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Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology: 111 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 111) - Hardcover
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The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and automata. These questions arose from findings in the 'new psychology', physiological research that diminished the primacy of mind and viewed human action as neurological and systemic. Concentrating on British and continental culture from 1870 to 1911, this unique study explores ways in which the idea of automatism helped shape ballet, art photography, literature, and professional writing. Drawing on documents including novels and travel essays, Linda M. Austin finds a link between efforts to establish standards of artistic practice and challenges to the idea of human exceptionalism. Austin presents each artistic discipline as an example of the same process: creation that should be intended, but involving actions that evade mental control. This study considers how late nineteenth-century literature and arts tackled the scientific question, 'Are we automata?'
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Linda M. Austin explores the ways in which scientific questions about the relation between human beings and automata, raised by the 'new psychology' of the late nineteenth century, forced the re-examination of creativity in literature, photography, ballet, and high-level mental activities.
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Linda M. Austin is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. She has written on the connections between the fine arts, economics, and psychology. She is the author of The Practical Ruskin (1991) and Nostalgia in Transition (2007), as well as articles published in such journals as English Literary History, Studies in Romanticism, Modernism/modernity, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Modern Language Quarterly.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 110842855X
- ISBN 13 9781108428552
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages280
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