The automaton in English Renaissance literature
Hyman, Wendy Beth.
The automaton in English Renaissance literature [electronic resource] / Wendy Beth Hyman. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011. - x, 209 p. : ill. - Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity . - Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Literature and technology--History--England--16th century.
Literature and technology--History--England--17th century.
Motion in literature.
Machinery in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Magic in literature.
Motion--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
PR428.T43 / H95 2011eb
820.9/356
The automaton in English Renaissance literature [electronic resource] / Wendy Beth Hyman. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011. - x, 209 p. : ill. - Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity . - Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Literature and technology--History--England--16th century.
Literature and technology--History--England--17th century.
Motion in literature.
Machinery in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Magic in literature.
Motion--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
PR428.T43 / H95 2011eb
820.9/356