TY - JOUR
TI - The technological sublime: machines and nature in Villiers’s Future Eve
AU - Stéphan, Elsa
TI - The technological sublime: machines and nature in Villiers’s Future Eve
AB - Based on Leo Marx’s expression, « the technological sublime », this article analyzes science and technology as new incarnations of the sublime in nineteenth-century literature. The characteristics of the sublime, as defined by Edmund Burke, were formerly attributed to nature in Romantic literature. In his novel, The Future Eve, published in 1886, French writer Villiers narrates the creation of a machine woman, described as a « sublime creature », illustrating nineteenth-century new faith in science.
VL - 2014
IS - Numéro  6 Nature morte
PY - 2014
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 23
EP - 36
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.14.011.3418
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/du-sublime-romantique-au-sublime-technologique-la-nature-et-la-machine-dans-leve-future-de-villiers-de-lisle-adam
KW - nature
KW - technology
KW - sublime
KW - Villiers
KW - nineteenth century