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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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.
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