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