{"product_id":"seeming-human-artificial-intelligence-and-victorian-realist-character-hardcover-2","title":"Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new theory of realist character through character's unexpected afterlife: the intelligent machine. The book contends that mid-twentieth-century versions of artificial intelligence (AI) offer a theory of verisimilitude omitted by traditional histories of character, which often focus on the development of interiority and the shift from \"flat\" to \"round\" characters in the Victorian era. Instead, by reading character through AI, Megan Ward's \u003ci\u003eSeeming Human\u003c\/i\u003e argues that routinization, predictability, automation, and even flatness are all features of realist characters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Early artificial intelligence movements such as cybernetics, information theory, and the Turing test define ways of seeming-rather than being-human. Using these theories of verisimilitude to read Victorian novelists such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, \u003ci\u003eSeeming Human\u003c\/i\u003e argues that mechanicity has been perceived as anti-realist because it is the element that we least want to identify as human. Because AI produces human-like intelligence, it makes clear that we must actually turn to machines in order to understand what makes realist characters seem so human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Ward is Assistant Professor of English at Oregon State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334580715769,"sku":"9780814213759","price":116.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/xM8DYhGFyH9780814213759_6c8c29e9-acc0-4416-a7e8-c54eb0248af9.webp?v=1769649238","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/seeming-human-artificial-intelligence-and-victorian-realist-character-hardcover-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}