02632nam a2200433 a 4500 ebr10481751 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101222s2011 vtua s 001 0 eng d 2010052526 9780754668657 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780754695196 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)747411102 e-uk-en PR428.T43 H95 2011eb 820.9/356 22 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 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 Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Literature and technology England History 16th century. Literature and technology England History 17th century. Motion in literature. Machinery in literature. Supernatural in literature. Magic in literature. Motion Philosophy. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481751 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 225041 225041