The automaton in English Renaissance literature:
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Main Author: Hyman, Wendy Beth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vt. Ashgate 2011
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes index
Introduction / Wendy Beth Hyman -- 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 Barnes Kolb -- Antique myth, early modern mechanism: the secret history of Spenser's Iron man / Lynsey McCulloch -- 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 -- "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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 209 p.)
ISBN:9780754695196
0754695190

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