The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

Herausgeber: Hyman, Wendy Beth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical and scientific contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780754668657
• ISBN-10: 0754668657
• Artikelnr.: 41244930

Autorenporträt

Wendy Beth Hyman is an assistant professor of English at Oberlin College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Wendy Beth Hyman; Part 1 Creations
Creatures
and Origins: Descartes avec Milton: the automata in the garden
Scott Maisano; 'To me comes a creature': recognition
agency
and the properties of character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Justin Kolb; Antique myth
early modern mechanism: the secret history of Spenser's Iron Man
Lynsey McCulloch. Part 2 Motion: Orpheus and the poetic animation of the natural world
Leah Knight; The mechanical saint: early modern devotion and the language of automation
Brooke Conti; Arrow
acrobat
and phoenix: on sense and motion in English civic pageantry
Michael Witmore. Part 3 Performance and Deception: 'More than art': clockwork automata
the extemporizing actor
and the Brazen Head in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Todd Andrew Borlik; 'Mathematical experiments of long silver pipes'; the early modern figure of the mechanical bird
Wendy Beth Hyman; Desire
nature
and automata in the bower of bliss
Nick Davis; Bibliography; Index.