02601nam a2200421 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020004200112020002700154040002100181035002100202043001200223050002600235082001800261100002300279245009600302260003900398300002200437490005600459500002000515505092900535533015201464650007201616650006301688650006301751650002601814650002901840650003201869650002501901650002401926655002901950710001701979830005701996856012602053ebr10481751CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||101222s2011    vtua    s     001 0 eng d  z  2010052526  z9780754668657 (hardback : alk. paper)  z9780754695196 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)747411102  ae-uk-en14aPR428.T43bH95 2011eb04a820.9/3562221 aHyman, Wendy Beth.14aThe automaton in English Renaissance literatureh[electronic resource] /cWendy Beth Hyman.  aBurlington, Vt. :bAshgate,c2011.  ax, 209 p. :bill.1 aLiterary and scientific cultures of early modernity  aIncludes index.0 aIntroduction / 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aEnglish literatureyEarly modern, 1500-1700xHistory and criticism. 0aLiterature and technologyzEnglandxHistoryy16th century. 0aLiterature and technologyzEnglandxHistoryy17th century. 0aMotion in literature. 0aMachinery in literature. 0aSupernatural in literature. 0aMagic in literature. 0aMotionxPhilosophy. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc. 0aLiterary and scientific cultures of early modernity.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481751zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view