Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-237) and index.
Contents
From Franklin to Whitman : contested ideologies of authorship and technology -- Machine art revisited : Hawthorne's artist(s) of the beautiful -- Do machines make history? Edgar Allan Poe and the technologizing of discourse -- Figuring modern authorship : Melville's narratives of technological encroachment -- The author in pain : technology and fragmentation in Rebecca Harding Davis and Walt Whitman.