The automaton in English Renaissance literature
By: Wendy Beth Hyman
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780754668657; 9780754695196
Subjects: History and criticism; Motion in literature; Magic in literature; English literature; Philosophy; Machinery in literature; Motion; Supernatural in literature; Literature and technology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Wendy Beth Hyman; title: Descartes avec Milton: the automata in the garden / Scott Maisano; title: "To me comes a creature": recognition, agency, and the properties of character in Shakespeare's The winter's tale / Justin Barnes Kolb; title: Antique myth, early modern mechanism: the secret history of Spenser's Iron man / Lynsey McCulloch; title: Orpheus and the poetic animation of the natural world / Leah Knight; title: The mechanical saint: early modern devotion and the language of automation / Brooke Conti; title: Arrow, acrobat, and phoenix: on sense and motion in English civic pageantry / Michael Witmore; title: "More than art": clockwork automata, the extemporizing actor, and the brazen head in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay / Todd Andrew Borlik; title: "Mathematical experiments of long silver pipes": the early modern figure of the mechanical bird / Wendy Beth Hyman; title: Desire, nature, and automata in The bower of bliss / Nick Davis.