New Book Chapter: Edgar Allan Poe, the Mechanical Turk, and Technological Purism
I contributed a chapter to the new book Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature, just published by Edinburgh University Press. My chapter examines Edgar Allan Poe’s attempt to discredit the famous chess-playing Turk hoax, along with “The Raven,” Poe’s essays, and contemporaneous works by Charles Babbage. Poe’s account of the hoax, I argue, exemplifies … Read more